Comment 83 for bug 123064

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 06:14 +0000, Rockwalrus wrote:
> I've been working on a package for 3.4 since RC1. I just uploaded a
> source package to my [[https://launchpad.net/~rock-gimp/+archive ppa]].
> It is based off of the never-released packaging for 3.3 in debian's pkg-
> java svn. There are a few major issues:
>
> * Help indexing causes memory corruption, which leads to a crash. This
> seems to be a gcj-4.2 issue; other jvms don't seem to have this problem.
> Unfortunately, the source package is set up to build with gcj, so some
> of the help file packages never get built. Furthermore, if you try to
> search help files installed using the update manager while running under
> gcj, eclipse crashes.
>
> * The Eclipse source build lost the ability to compile the SWT native
> libraries sometime between RC1 and the final release. This package uses
> the .so files that come in the upstream tarball.
>
> * There are several jars that were replaced with symlinks to jars in
> /usr/share/java. Since the 3.4 versions have had osgi properties added
> to their manifests, this isn't a safe transformation anymore, so those
> files aren't replaced with symlinks anymore.
>
> * P2 doesn't work. If you enable classic update, you can still use it
> to install new plugins from update sites.
>
> Despite all that, I've found it to be reasonably stable and much more
> useful to me than the 3.2 packages in Hardy.
>
It seems to me that a good idea would be to help out Rockwalrus with
the building.