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Bug 344362

Summary:	Provide official PPA repository for Debian/Ubuntu
Product:	[Tools] Linux Tools	Reporter:	anatoly techtonik <techtonik>
Component:	eclipse-build	Assignee:	Packaging Tools Inbox <linux.packagingtools-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, bdrung, niels, overholt, peter, remy.suen
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description anatoly techtonik

2011-04-30 04:08:51 EDT

Build Identifier: 

Released Ubuntu 11.04 doesn't have 3.6.2 among its software list. It is a common problem for Ubuntu/Debian software that can be alleviated by providing separate Personal Package Archive. Google Chrome team does with http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ and it really helps to keep community involved.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Alexander Kurtakov

2011-04-30 06:12:02 EDT

There is http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-java/eclipse.git;a=summary and I'm pretty sure that debian guys will appreciate your help to get it packaged properly.

Comment 2 anatoly techtonik

2011-04-30 07:02:03 EDT

Windows as my primary platform, and my Debian commits rights were revoked, because I am not experienced enough with the packaging. So don't rely on my help.

Comment 3 Andrew Overholt

2011-05-02 08:49:36 EDT

Thanks for the re-assignment, John.  The position of the Linux Tools project has always been that the best place for distribution packages is _in_ the distribution.  This is perhaps at odds with recent trends in the Ubuntu world of a range of PPAs.  I'll leave this bug open in case anyone wants to step up to do this.  My personal opinion is that it is best to work with the Ubuntu and Debian packagers to ensure that those are well-integrated and conform with the packaging guidelines of those distributions.

Comment 4 Benjamin Drung

2011-05-05 16:33:54 EDT

Help to get Eclipse 3.6.2 build from source (with all .jar files removed) will be appreciated. Once we have a working package for Debian unstable / Ubuntu development version, nothing speaks against putting this version into a PPA for older Ubuntu releases.

Comment 5 Alexander Kurtakov

2011-11-08 04:22:13 EST

I'm closing this bug as it is out of scope for the project.

Comment 6 anatoly techtonik

2011-11-08 05:46:38 EST

Reopening just to clarify, are you sure about that?

From the description of this project:

-- cut https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/describecomponents.cgi?product=Linux%20Tools --
eclipse-build	 Packaging Tools Inbox	
Build harness for the Eclipse SDK used by various Linux distributions
--

Ubuntu users use PPA for building and reviewing packages.

Comment 7 Alexander Kurtakov

2011-11-08 07:05:30 EST

Providing binary (In reply to comment #6)
> Reopening just to clarify, are you sure about that?
> 
> From the description of this project:
> 
> -- cut
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/describecomponents.cgi?product=Linux%20Tools --
> eclipse-build     Packaging Tools Inbox    
> Build harness for the Eclipse SDK used by various Linux distributions
> --

I'm 100 % sure. 
eclipse-build is here to provide "Build harness" not to provide builds/rebuilds/mirroring and etc. It's up to the various distributions do that on their own.
Linux Tools eclipse-build project is shipping SOURCE ONLY "build harness" for the various distributions out there. 

> 
> Ubuntu users use PPA for building and reviewing packages.

Fedora users use YUM repositories for building and reviewing packages.
Suse users use zypper repositories for building and reviewing packages.
Mageia/Mandriva users use URPMI repositories for building and reviewing packages.
Gentoo users use portage tree + overlays for building and reviewing packages
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.
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I hope you see the point. It is definetely out of scope for the project.