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

[Markus Koschany]

Am Freitag, dem 01.12.2023 um 13:06 +0100 schrieb Matthias Geiger:
> 
> Kotlin is now in debian, is there anything else blocking the update ?

As a start I have built Gradle 4.6 from source with almost only system
libraries but I hit a wall because there seems to be a bug in our Kotlin
version or rather 4.6 requires a different version, so this version still
relies on upstream's binary distribution of Kotlin. I will push this in a few
days and then let's see how we can proceed from here on. Why still 4.6? Jumping
to a newer version like 6.x (which is already superseded by 8.x) requires
updates of many different system libraries which in turn requires updates of
reverse-dependencies of said libraries and so on. So whenever you change
something in Debian's Java eco system you have to be prepared to fix a bunch of
other seemingly (un)related stuff as well. More details follow soon.

Markus
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