Bug#733586: closure-compiler: new upstream version available

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Tony,

On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 22:49:23 -0800 tony mancill <tmancill at debian.org> wrote:
> On 2015-11-04 14:21, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> > Source: closure-compiler
> > Version: 20130227+dfsg1-8
> > Followup-For: Bug #733586
> > 
> > Gentle ping? The latest upstream release is 20151015 as far as I can
> > see. There have been some changes so the present Debianisation cannot
> > simply be forwarded. My skills in Java packaging are however somewhat
> > limited.
> > 
> >     Christoph, on behalf of another person who is interested in using
> > closure-compiler

[snip]

> I took a look at the 20151015 release and so far it appears that we only 
> need to package one additional reverse dependency - "truth" 
> (http://google.github.io/truth).  We may also take advantage of this 
> opportunity to switch from ant to the maven-based build system.  I'll 
> try to get the new r-dep packaged this weekend and then see how quickly 
> we can get the rest of it ready to go.

I was wondering if there has been any progress? I myself am also looking into packaging closure-library, which would also profit from a newer closure-compiler (and in fact calls new style parameters in its build script).

Cheers
Sascha