On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 13:18:23 +0100 Matthias Geiger <werdah...@riseup.net>
wrote:
> On 01.12.23 13:16, Markus Koschany wrote:
> > Am Freitag, dem 01.12.2023 um 13:06 +0100 schrieb Matthias Geiger:
> >> Kotlin is now in debian, is there anything else blocking the update ?
> > As a start I have built Gradle 4.6 from source with almost only system
> > libraries but I hit a wall because there seems to be a bug in our
Kotlin
> > version or rather 4.6 requires a different version, so this version
still
> > relies on upstream's binary distribution of Kotlin. I will push
this in a few
> > days and then let's see how we can proceed from here on. Why still
4.6? Jumping
> > to a newer version like 6.x (which is already superseded by 8.x)
requires
> > updates of many different system libraries which in turn requires
updates of
> > reverse-dependencies of said libraries and so on. So whenever you
change
> > something in Debian's Java eco system you have to be prepared to
fix a bunch of
> > other seemingly (un)related stuff as well. More details follow soon.
>
>
> Awesome, thanks for your work on this !
Hi Markus,
is there anything blocking this ? Anything I can do to help ?
best,
--
Matthias Geiger <werdahias>
Debian Maintainer
