On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 05:21:55PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Apologies if this is a dumb and/or frequently-answered question, > but... does anyone know why the version of the "gradle" build tool in > bookworm is version 4? > > The version in bookworm, 4.4.1-18, was migrated to testing in January > of this year -- an upgrade from version 4.4.1-13 -- at which time the > latest upstream version was at least version 7. So it doesn't appear > to be a "package not maintained any more" issue... The maintainers > appear to be the Debian Java maintenance team, who I would assume > would be unlikely to wander off... Bug reports against the package are > beginning to show evidence that people are finding the age of the > package a problem as unit tests and even some build dependencies > become harder and harder to support. > > Gradle is not some minority, hardly-used tool, so there is presumably > a reason why the package hasn't been updated in Debian. Anyone know > what it is? > Becuase it's Very Hard Work(TM).
Updating Gradle in Debian was proposed as a project under Freexian's Project Funding initiative and it was accepted and work was done on it for several months: https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/project-funding/-/issues/19 However, it seems like there are rather serious blocking issues that have halted progress. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
