Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Matthias Klose Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.java Subject: Re: any efforts to get Eclipse IDE (with CDT) back into Debian? Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 12:00:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-java-request@lists.debian.org Sat Jun 29 09:57:47 2024 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.299 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, KHOP_HELO_FCRDNS=0.399, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL=1.31, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -2.7 X-Greylist: delayed 897 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at bendel; Sat, 29 Jun 2024 09:57:35 UTC Old-X-Envelope-From: doko@debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/23476 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/2774a6bd-bbe9-4bf9-a937-5adedea4e578@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 25 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: debian-java@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:42:29 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <2774a6bd-bbe9-4bf9-a937-5adedea4e578@debian.org> X-Original-References: <1ee94302-3c55-4cdb-48ea-362cdefd85f7@apache.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.java:12781 On 16.06.24 23:21, Philippe Cerfon wrote: > Hey Emmanuel. > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 6:54 PM Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >> The lack of manpower is still an issue. I'm still able to update the >> core Eclipse libraries once or twice a year, but the full IDE would >> require at least a full time maintainer I think. > > I see. > > What a pity that none of the big companies using Debian and doing > development (and thus may benefit from Eclipse, too) or e.g. Canonical > seems to have an interest in this and being able to sponsor the needed > manpower. I fail to see the connection between using Debian and using Eclipse. Go start packaging yourself, or at least write what would be needed. In the past, upstream didn't care much about getting packaging issues addressed upstream, and packaging is very time consuming. I'm not sure if RedHat is still doing that, but they had one or two full time developers doing that. Matthias