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

[Matthias Geiger]

On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 23:34:14 +0200 Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > Am 05.10.20 um 23:07 schrieb 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.
 >
 > Short version is: We are fully aware gradle in Debian is not up-to-date
 > but it is much more complicated. Did you know that Gradle, a Java build

 > tool, now requires Kotlin to build Java packages?

Kotlin is now in debian, is there anything else blocking the update ?