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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.

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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.

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