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

[Antonio Ospite]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 13:03:42 +0100
Antonio Ospite <ao2 at ao2.it> wrote:

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

I tried installing scala 2.10.5 from debian snapshot:
https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20150606T044147Z/pool/main/s/scala/

However the sbt from debian was built with scala 2.11 and it will
still look for that version at runtime.

So if sbt should also be re-compiled to make the combination
scala_2.10+sbt_0.13 work it might as well be worth using newer versions
as Emmanuel suggested.

I think I'll stop my investigations for now.

Thank you,
   Antonio

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