Bug#873341: SBT is uninstallable; depends on nonexistent packages

[Antonio Ospite]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:45:29 +0100
Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Antonio,
> 
> Le 03/01/2019 à 10:59, Antonio Ospite a écrit :
> 
> > Are there any plans to improve the situation?
> 
> We lack contributors to maintain the Scala ecosystem in Debian and some
> help would be really welcome. I spent some time updating our scala
> package but I'm not a Scala developer and I don't have the time to look
> into this anymore.
>

Thank you Emmanuel, I am not a Scala developer either, I just wanted to
build one project written in it, and I was trying to do so using the
tools provided in Debian.

> If someone wants to pick the ball the next steps are to:
> 1. build SBT 1.0 without the embedded libraries
> 2. build Scala 2.12
>

I was wondering if downgrading scala to 2.10 might be somewhat useful
and less work. Fedora is also still shipping scala 2.10.

Ciao,
   Antonio

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