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Thanks to the help of many people we were able to upload new Eclipse packages into the Debian archive. As they include some new binary packages it went into the NEW queue. In the next days ftp-master will review and … Continue reading →

I uploaded a new version of Eclipse (3.1-10) to my repository. This now features a working internal help system and the packages are now built for amd64 too. The following source lines are for installing the Debian packages via apt-get: … Continue reading →

After a long time I got around to release a new version of gcjwebplugin with some important bug fixes to work with more applets. Among other things linkage of Glib, parsing of applet parameters and some segfaults got fixed. Packages … Continue reading →

Another revision of the eclispe debian packages got uploaded. They fix a whole bunch of problems including powerpc support. As usual they can be fetched for i386 via deb http://www.backports.org/~mkoch/unstable/ ./ for powerpc via deb http://www.backports.org/~mkoch/unstable-powerpc/ ./ and the sources … Continue reading →

Thanks to the numerous people who gave feedback on the last upload I was able to do much fixes to the Eclipse Debian packages. They got improved very much. The most shiny feature is the powerpc support support with pre-compiled … Continue reading →

After a long time I got around to do some hacking on the Eclipse 3.1 packages for Debian. I uploaded them and they can be fetched with the following lines in your sources.list: deb http://www.backports.org/~mkoch/unstable/ ./ deb-src http://www.backports.org/~mkoch/unstable/ ./ The … Continue reading →

I updated my Eclipse Debian packages for unstable to version 3.1 RC4. This should be nearly identical to the upcoming final release of it. I needed to change the versioning scheme to make them work with the Debian archive software. … Continue reading →

I have uploaded some experimental Eclipse Debian packages to this location. Sorry, no apt-get lines yet. They are targetted for Debian unstable. Native compilation of jars for GCJ 4.0 is disabled for the moment because it takes too long on … Continue reading →

Yesterday evening Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename “Sarge”) got released. Thanks to all who helped with the release. It took a long time but finally did it. The Free Java support in this release of Debian is much better then before. … Continue reading →