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Re: status of eclipse-pydev

Hi Jakub,

On 27.02.2015 23:01, Jakub Adam wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> On 27.2.2015 18:45, Markus Koschany wrote:
>> I had to rebase a couple of patches
>> especially this one [1] which was rather confusing. I'm quite new to
>> packaging Eclipse plugins but I wonder if there is no better solution
>> than patching various MANIFEST files?
> 
> yes, this is a bit annoying, but we must remove any binary JARs bundled with
> the upstream sources and replace them with Debian versions and with this change
> each manifest has to be modified accordingly. I don't see any easy way out of this
> and it's very unlikely upstream would completely change the way they build and
> distribute their software.

Ok. I thought all the jh_eclipse* helpers would do that somehow
automagically. :)


>> It would be great if Jakub or someone else would take another look but
>> so far it seems that the plugin works as intended. All changes are on
>> the experimental branch.
> 
> I had to fix one build issue with circular dependencies that was introduced after your
> changes [1]. Otherwise, good work with updating the package. It is lintian-clean,
> copyright file was completed and the plugin seems to be working as expected in Eclipse.
> To me it looks fit for upload in its current state.
> 
> Since this is a new package whose all dependencies are already in testing, I guess we
> can upload it directly into sid even though testing is still frozen before Jessie release.
> Also please merge master branch with experimental.

Thanks for the fix. Well, then we are looking for a sponsor now.

Cheers,

Markus

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