Hello, I'm the new maintainer of eclipse, a IDE written in java.
Eclipse is currently put into /usr/lib/eclipse directory, as eclipse contains some JNI code, which is arch dependent. JNI nativ libs (*so) are put into /usr/lib/jni (reusable parts: SWT) and subdirs of /usr/lib/eclipse (File access speedup libs, only usefull to eclipse). Eclipse is made up of different plugins, which are put into /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/ and which are written in java (-> jars, icons, a xml file). Now I've run lintian and linda (backported from unstable) and they complain loudly about gifs and jars in /usr/lib. My current thinking is, that I will change the base directory from /usr/lib/eclipse to /usr/share/eclipse, but will put all 'arch dependet' code (about 10 files from various places) directly into /usr/lib/eclipse and then set symlinks to the 'expected' places in /usr/share/eclipse subdirs. This will mean, that the 'starter' of eclipse (native, mostly sorts out parameter and then passes them on to java) is in /usr/lib/eclipse, but would be unusable (IMO), when used from there and not via the /usr/share/eclipse symlink. So, now my question: Is my thinking 'right'? Or is there a better way? Jan
