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  1. Bug #1019273
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Comment 16 for bug 1019273

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Angel Guzman Maeso (shakaran) wrote : Re: Version Bump to 4.3

Hi, I am only a recent junior contributor to pkg-java group (debian-java) and I gonna try to give some info about. The build process is pretty similar between 3.x and 4.x, but it has some dependencies to be updated. It is is based on scripts and patches from eclipse-build project[1][2]

For example Eclipse 4.x needs libswt-4-gtk instead libswt-3-gtk and maybe others updated like jetty8. I spend some days on it and with the help and mentoring of Jakub Adam the package libswt-4-gtk is almost updated.

You can see the latest commits for branch master-4.3 [3].

For build swt-gtk-4.3:

git clone -b master-4.3 --single-branch http://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/pkg-java/swt-gtk.git swt-gtk-4.3
cd swt-gtk-4.3
debuild -uc -us -B

For eclipse, at this moment we don't have the master-4.3 [4] branch created, but you can test with master-4.2 [5]

For build eclipse 4.2 and test it is pretty similar:

git clone -b master-4.2 --single-branch https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/pkg-java/eclipse.git eclipse-4.2-master
cd eclipse-4.2-master
debuild -uc -us -B

Also note the debian bugs for Eclipse 4.2 [6], for Eclipse 4.3 [7].

I start to contribute for speed the process and learn about it some weeks ago because I use Eclipse daily for work, if you wanna help like me to get Eclipse updated, the Java Team would be happy to have you join us.

Most coordination occurs on the debian-java list[8] and for more info [9]

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Linux_Tools_Project/Eclipse_Build
[2] http://git.eclipse.org/c/linuxtools/org.eclipse.linuxtools.eclipse-build.git
[3] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/swt-gtk.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master-4.3
[4] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/eclipse.git;a=summary
[5] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/eclipse.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master-4.2
[6] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=68172
[7] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732959
[8] http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/
[9] http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org