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.
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