Bug#873341: SBT is uninstallable; depends on nonexistent packages

[Antonio Ospite]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 22:57:34 +0100
Antonio Ospite <ao2 at ao2.it> wrote:

> Package: sbt
> Version: 0.13.13-2
> Followup-For: Bug #873341
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> just a curiosity, are you trying to package the latest 0.13.x version or
> the newer 1.x version? https://www.scala-sbt.org/download.html
>

BTW, it looks like sbt is actually installable again in
debian unstable, as its dependencies libsbt-test-interface-java and
libscala-tools-sbinary-java are readily available.

So this bug report could be closed IMHO, and a new one about using a
new upstream version may be opened.

Anyways from the little I've seen, for sbt to be really usable with
the majority of projects, the combination of sbt and scala versions
also matters.

For instance, some downloadable packages are not available for the
combination sbt_0.13 and scala_2.11 which is what we have in debian.

The most supported combinations seem to be:
  - sbt_0.13 + scala_2.10
  - sbt_1.0 + scala_2.12

An example of this can be seen by trying to locally build sbt itself,
or scala[1], or the kaitai compiler mentioned below.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845113#22

> JFYI I would use sbt to try to build the Kitai Struct compiler:
> https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_compiler
> 

Are there any plans to improve the situation?

Thank you,
   Antonio

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