Bug#933264: gradle: Nearly 3-year-old version almost useless

[Nick Jacobs]

Package: gradle
Version: 4.4.1-12
Followup-For: Bug #933264
X-Debbugs-Cc: halbtaxabo-deb at yahoo.com

Dear Maintainer,

I tried to use gradle to build an application called keenwrite.
Build failed with the error message that the build requires at
least version 5.1 of gradle. (The current version is 6.6).
The version installed (even in sid) is 4.4.1.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gradle depends on:
ii  default-jre-headless [java8-runtime-headless]     2:1.11-72
ii  libgradle-core-java                               4.4.1-12
ii  libgradle-plugins-java                            4.4.1-12
ii  openjdk-11-jre-headless [java8-runtime-headless]  11.0.8+10-1

gradle recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gradle suggests:
pn  gradle-doc  <none>

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