Bug#747817: groovy: Please package 2.3 or a more recent release

[Rogério Brito]

Package: groovy2
Version: 2.2.2+dfsg-3
Followup-For: Bug #747817

Hi there.

Would it be possible to get a newer version of groovy in the archive?

Apparently, the last stable version of groovy is 2.3.7 (but I may be wrong)
and it includes some features that seem quite interesting, like the vastly
faster JSON parser (claimed to be 1 order or magnitude!) and the
@TailRecursive annotation.

Even if it is not possible to make it past the freeze, a newer version
landing in unstable would be very nice to have.


Thanks in advance for all the amazing work of the Java team,

Rogério Brito.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (250, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages groovy2 depends on:
ii  antlr                          2.7.7+dfsg-6
ii  default-jre [java6-runtime]    2:1.7-52
ii  default-jre-headless           2:1.7-52
ii  ivy                            2.3.0-3
ii  junit4                         4.11-3
ii  libasm4-java                   5.0.3-1
ii  libbsf-java                    1:2.4.0-5
ii  libcommons-cli-java            1.2-3
ii  libcommons-logging-java        1.2-1
ii  libjansi-java                  1.4-3
ii  libjline2-java                 2.11-2
ii  libqdox-java                   1.12-1
ii  libservlet2.5-java             6.0.41-3
ii  libxstream-java                1.4.7-2
ii  openjdk-7-jre [java6-runtime]  7u71-2.5.3-1

Versions of packages groovy2 recommends:
ii  ant                   1.9.4-3
ii  ant-optional          1.9.4-3
pn  libgpars-groovy-java  <none>
ii  libjcommander-java    1.35-1
ii  testng                6.8.8-2

Versions of packages groovy2 suggests:
pn  groovy-doc  <none>

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