Dear all, Sometime back, I read that the eclipse that Debian provides was pretty old. I looked up and sure enough it is a pretty old version.
The version provided by Eclipse foundation is release 4.9 while the one which we have is 3.8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(software) A difference of almost 6 years. >From what I understood while it may not be possible to update/upgrade the whole of eclipse right away, some parts of it may be possible to now and probably attempt to get the remaining places in the next post-buster cycle. I have been trying, vainly I might add to know which parts/libraries of eclipse or/and eclipse-platform have been modernized and which are not. For instance while eclipse itself is released at 3.8.11 eclipse-cdt is at 8.6.0-2 $ apt-cache policy eclipse-cdt eclipse-cdt: Installed: (none) Candidate: 8.6.0-2 Version table: 8.6.0-2 100 100 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages which was introduced in 2016. As a non-packager what could I do to help ? Which leaf packages should I install and any tests or something which can help in getting parts of eclipse in buster ? I did see https://wiki.debian.org/Eclipse and the discussion at https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2017/11/msg00039.html Looking forward to more insight though. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8