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Why would you need a package for Eclipse. Download it is a ZIP, extract it in the location of your choice and run it from there. (Portable app)

I have been using it like that almost every day for 15 years now.

Eclipse isn't portable, somebody has to compile it for Linux, it just comes down to whether you want that done by the Eclipse Foundation or Debian people.

The discussion here was about why a debian package for Eclipse is not up to date.

My theory is that it is obviously because there is a way how to run Eclipse, without any issues and without the need of an officially tested debian package, so there is not huge demand.

That would be fine if Linux preserved backwards compatibility, the glibc version change last year meant that some binary packages no longer run.

Something like Netbeans doesn't need a debian package but Eclipse is split into lots of jar files that each depends on some shared libraries.

Okay, so why don't you volunteer to update it?

If there's no people volunteering to update it, then there's nobody to update it a little faster.

Exclipse got removed from Debian because it became too hard to package.