Bug#873341: Scala Build Tool (sbt) status ?

[Adam Cecile]

Hi Frédéric,

Thanks a lot for the clarification and good luck with the new 
bootstrapping approach.

Adam.


On 01/15/2018 10:00 AM, Frédéric Bonnard wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> sbt packaging is not yet ready.
> That last piece i.e. "scala-tools-sbinary" package was refused by
> ftpmasters. That outlined several weaknesses in the way I did the
> packaging for the components I pushed in experimental, and I'm not sure
> at this point, if I want to pursue the packaging this way (and that's
> why I didn't remove what's in experimental so far)
> So I decided to start again from scratch, trying another approach for
> bootstrapping sbt (sbt needs sbt to build and other deps which also need
> sbt etc etc). This is still a proof of concept try and I'm not sure to
> be successful.
> You can find some details on the debian-java mailing list archive,
> especially here :
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2017/11/msg00018.html
> At the moment, I did a break at the end of December and expect to resume
> as soon as I have some time for it again.
> All that to say that, sadly you should not expect some Debian packaging
> soon.
>
> Also even if sbinary debs would be available, you may still need many
> sbt runtime libraries depending on your project .. and sbt does drag
> loads of them often... (that will be another task once core sbt packages
> are available : package all possible runtime deps).
>
>
> F.
>
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:06:39 +0100, Adam Cécile <acecile at le-vert.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I need to use sbt tool and from what I see it's very closed being
>> included in Debian.
>>
>> Most of the package are already available in experimental, except
>> libscala-tools-sbinary-java
>>
>>
>> Is there anyway a git or something containing "not-yet-uploaded" package ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>
>> Adam.
>>