[Debian-med-packaging] beast-mcmc2: Cannot find symbol CharStreams.fromString(newick)

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 09:44:30AM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Le 19/07/2018 à 08:56, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> >     [javac] /build/beast2-mcmc-2.5.0+dfsg/src/beast/util/TreeParser.java:353: error: cannot find symbol
> >     [javac]         CharStream charStream = CharStreams.fromString(newick);
> >     [javac]                                 ^
> >     [javac]   symbol:   variable CharStreams
> >     [javac]   location: class TreeParser
> >     [javac] /build/beast2-mcmc-2.5.0+dfsg/src/beast/util/treeparser/NewickLexer.java:98: error: method does not override or implement a method from a supertype
> >     [javac]     @Override
> >     [javac]     ^
> 
> It looks like these errors are related to ANTLR [1].
> You'll need the version 4.7.

Upstream confirmed this[2] - and suggests to use antlr 4.7.
So my question is: Can we expect this version of antlr in Debian
in the foreseeable future?

Kind regards

     Andreas.
 
> [1] https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/commit/deacdc96
[2] https://github.com/CompEvol/beast2/issues/797

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