[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4

[Rockwalrus]

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.

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Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123064
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