Incorrect dependency of eclipse-platform and eclipse-rcp with eclipse-sdk

[Olivier Mengué]

Packages eclipse-platform and eclipse-sdk are incorrectly dependent on eclipse-sdk.

When I try to install eclipse-jdt-3.1.1-1ubuntu3, apt-get/synaptics says it also has to install:
  ant eclipse-jdt-common eclipse-pde eclipse-pde-common eclipse-platform
  eclipse-platform-common eclipse-rcp eclipse-rcp-common eclipse-sdk junit
  libant1.6-java libgcj6-awt libjsch-java liblucene-java liblucene-java-doc
  libswt3.1-gtk-java libswt3.1-gtk-jni mozilla-browser

Many of theese packages are NOT required. For example, eclipse-sdk should not be required to use eclipse-jdt.

The problem is that eclipse-platform is defined as dependent of eclipse-sdk which is WRONG (there is even a circular dependency). eclipse-rcp has the same bug: it should not be dependent on eclipse-sdk.

Here is how dependencies should be defined:
(-> means "is dependent of")

eclipse-jdt -> eclipse-platform
eclipse-pde -> eclipse-jdt
eclipse-sdk -> { eclipse-pde, eclipse-jdt }
eclipse-rcp must not be dependent of either eclipse-platform or eclipse-sdk
eclipse-rcp-sdk is probably dependent of eclipse-jdt, but I'm not sure.

For more information on what content is expected for each package, see:
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.1.1-200509290840/index.php

[Olivier Mengué (dolmen)]

The depency defined in (old: eclipse 2.1) Debian packages were clean and should be used to model Eclipse dependencies:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/eclipse-sdk

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed at least in 3.1.2-1ubuntu5