Bug#526489: Fwd: Re: Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?)

2009-06-15 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Forwarded from -devel -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 From: Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org To: Jerry Haltom was...@larvalstage.net, Michael Koch konque

Bug#526489: Re: Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?)

2009-06-15 Thread Markus Knauer
Project? Maybe they have some resources they can spend on that? Regards, Markus 2009/6/15 Andrew Vaughan ajv-li...@netspace.net.au Forwarded from -devel -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package

Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned

2009-06-15 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, From: Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org Third and last warning, I will orphan eclipse next saturday (20th June), Perhaps the right thing to do is simply to have eclipse removed from the archive. It is way too outdated to be useful now, and would

Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned

2009-06-15 Thread Pantelis Koukousoulas
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Marcus Bettermar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, From: Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org Third and last warning, I will orphan eclipse next saturday (20th June), Perhaps the right thing to do is simply to have eclipse

Bug#526489: Re: Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?)

2009-06-15 Thread Andrew Overholt
* Markus Knauer mkna...@innoopract.com [2009-06-15 06:21]: Or did you contact one of the persons of the Linux Distro Project? Maybe they have some resources they can spend on that? Unfortunately, we do not (and we're now known as the Linux Tools Project :) . However, we are working on making

Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?)

2009-06-15 Thread Jens Kapitza
Hi, can I be of any help? (I would take it over) I can offer my time but i think i need some help. Background: I'm working with eclipse since version (~3.0) and with debian linux since 5 years. I have some knowledge in building debian packages. --- Jens Kapitza

Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?)

2009-06-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jens Kapitza wrote: Hi, can I be of any help? (I would take it over) I can offer my time but i think i need some help. About half a year ago I offered sponsoring packages to push things but I have basically zero Java experience and can only check about Debian policy and

Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?)

2009-06-15 Thread Ana Guerrero
Thanks for dropping an answer... On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:18:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Ana Guerrero schrieb: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:40:49AM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: I filed the quoted report almost 3 weeks ago. Resending to people listed as eclipse uploaders in case they

Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned

2009-06-15 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 02:41:45PM +0300, Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Marcus Bettermar...@better.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, From: Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org Third and last warning, I will orphan eclipse next

Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?)

2009-06-15 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi Markus, Jens and list: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:52:34PM +0200, Jens Kapitza wrote: Hi, can I be of any help? (I would take it over) I can offer my time but i think i need some help. You could ask to join the java team for maintaining eclipse, so you can commit in the pkg-java's SVN and

Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?)

2009-06-15 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Jun 15 16:32, Andreas Tille wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jens Kapitza wrote: I can offer my time but i think i need some help. About half a year ago I offered sponsoring packages to push things but I have basically zero Java experience and can only check about Debian policy and stuff

Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned

2009-06-15 Thread Pantelis Koukousoulas
Removing the eclipse 3.2 from the archive would be fine with me, fwiw, especially if it motivates anyone to contribute towards getting 3.5 in. I think removing directly is not a good idea. It is a widely used application, so I am really hoping somebody gets interested in maintaining it. But

Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned

2009-06-15 Thread Luke Faraone
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 13:21, Pantelis Koukousoulas pkt...@gmail.comwrote: Perhaps the eclipse package can be replaced with an installer-type thingie (a-la fwcutter) that just brings in the appropriate dependencies (e.g., openjdk, xulrunner etc) and arranges for the upstream binary to be

Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?)

2009-05-19 Thread Ana Guerrero
I filed the quoted report almost 3 weeks ago. Resending to people listed as eclipse uploaders in case they did not get it. On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 04:33:20PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: Package: eclipse Version: 3.2.2-6.1 Severity: important After being hit by #507536 (merged with #511713,

Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?

2009-05-01 Thread Ana Guerrero
Package: eclipse Version: 3.2.2-6.1 Severity: important After being hit by #507536 (merged with #511713, #515747) and read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507536#104 I have been looking at the status of eclipse in Debian. Eclipse's packaging is under the umbrella of the Debian

Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?

2009-05-01 Thread Sandro Tosi
I completely agree with Ana, this package needs new fresh blood to maintain it. I repromised myself (some time ago) to give it some love, but I didn't managed to have time to. IMO this should be orphaned, and let another team aggregate to maintain it. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph,