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Eclipse 3.2 is out-of-date!

Bug #272751 reported by DeeDee0815 on 2008-09-21

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #123064: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.5.0. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	eclipse (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: eclipse

Hello,

so far, so good: Great work with the Hardy-Release. But: There is still Eclipse 3.2 in the repositorys. It has to be upgraded as fast as possilbe. If Ubuntu should be an operating system, which is the choice for using it professional, there can not be an out-of-date package of a so important application. It seems that Intrepid will still contain this old version, too. That would be a disaster!

So is it so difficould to build new Eclipse packages? And, of course, I am not the first one claiming that old version!

Greetings,
DeeDee0815

(Excuse my possibly bad english, please!)

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mdshort (mdshort) wrote on 2008-10-01:

I concur with DeeDee0815, eclipse is outdated! Eclipse 3.4.1 is already out. Can somebody take care of this problem?

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arno_b (arno.b) wrote on 2008-10-02:

I agree.
The problem with Java programs is that they are to easily installable/removable from your computer by simple end-users; so unfortunately, packagers prefer to spend time on software that are more complicated to install...

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DeeDee0815 (deedee0815) wrote on 2008-10-02:

@Arnaud Blouin:

Hi Arnaud Blouin,

but these packagers should ask theirself for the sense of packages. Is it only to make complicated software easily to install, or ist it for installing every application. I think the last thing is the sense of a package managing system. Otherwise we could do the same thing as on windows machienes, just put the apps on the system, and never get rid of them. But this would, of course, make shared libraries impossible.

Greetings,
DeeDee0815

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote on 2008-10-07:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #123064, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Eclipse is a big package and is complicated to maintain. For example there are 48 patches in the source package. Some of them does not apply on the current eclipse version. So they need a review.