old version of scala package

[Thomas Finneid]

(Sorry for the duplicate post to debian-java at lists.debian.org, got 
confused about where to send the message)

Hi

I am a scala developer, of sorts, and want to help ease the installation 
of the development environment for scala developers in debina/ubuntu.

I noticed that the scala package only contains scala 2.11, and the jdk 
is on version 8 and 11(?!). So I was wondering if I could start by 
helping upgrade the scala package to version 2.12.8.

I am just getting into reading about package maintaining, but any 
thoughts on how I can help? Should I create a bug report for updating to 
2.12?

Regards

Thomas


NB1: Scala 2.11 is built for java 6, and has only rudimentary support 
for java 8. So it runs into problems in certain situations. The current 
scala package has dependency on java 11, as I understand it.

NB2: Scala 2.12 is built against java 8, so it does not support java 
9/10 or 11 properly yet. We have to wait for scala 2.13 for proper 
support, but it will be built and tested against java 11 only. Although, 
it might work fine for java 10, but thats up to users/volunteers to test 
and fix.