On 07.12.2016 03:36, Stuart Prescott wrote: > Source: electric > Version: 9.07+dfsg-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > The 'electric' source package build-depends on scala but does not seem > to actually use the scala compiler at all in the build. The source package > contains lots of empty directories under 'scala' and there are a few scala > source files elsewhere in the plugins. It seems unlikely that this is the > intended situation; either scala isn't needed for the build or something > has gone awry with the build and some of the package isn't being built as > intended (or I've completely missed something in the build system and build > logs!). >
Hi, AFAIK Scala is optional and not strictly required to rebuild Electric from source. So in this regard you are right we could remove scala from Build-Depends. The upstream source tarball contains only class files under scala/ thus I had to repack the tarball and remove all binary blobs. Some Scala plugins exist under com/sun/electric/plugins/minarea/deltamerge1 though and someone would need the scala compiler for building them from source. In short adding scala to Build-Depends is convenient for people who want to build the scala plugins but it is not used automatically thus it should be safe to remove with the next upload of Electric. Regards, Markus
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