On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 13:21, Pantelis Koukousoulas <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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 installed would be the most useful option short term.
>
> That is, until upstream gets a sane build system that does not require
> tons of patches and complexity and us debian people can agree to
> a policy regarding the packaging of eclipse and collaboration of apt
> with eclipse's P2.


That would seem like a reasonable interim solution, but (iirc) such a
package can't be included in main, but rather stored in contrib.


-- 
Luke Faraone
http://luke.faraone.cc
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