Groovy in Debian

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 15:11 -0430, Miguel Landaeta wrote:
[ . . . ]
> That notification is due an old Groovy package that I prepared and uploaded
> to mentors but was never uploaded to the archive. That notification will go away
> very soon.

Splendid.  I suspected it would but was just checking.

> Regarding 1.7.8, Tony Mancill has just uploaded this version to unstable.
> Thanks for notifying this to us.

I got the acceptance notification, so see things have happened nice and
quickly, thanks for responding to my email promptly.

Sending in notes as I did is the trivial bit, it is you people doing
that packaging that do the hard work, thanks for undertaking it.

The JVM eco-system seems to be hard one to handle in Debian -- I guess
because of the "jar hell" problem.  Presumably this will only get worse
as OSGi and/or Project Jigsaw go into real production so that it is
possible, indeed required, to have multiple versions of jars all loaded
at once.  I assume all the JVM-related packages will have to head
towards being packaged with their version number in the name as GCC is? 

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