Wheezy and Jessie backport of scala 2.11.6

[Sandro Tosi]

thanks for your inputs! do you have an idea how difficult it would be
to backport to wheezy as well?

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:
> Le 08/07/2015 15:25, Sandro Tosi a écrit :
>
>> do you have any plane to backport scala 2.11.x to Jessie and Wheezy?
>> at work we'd like to start using that newer version. I could attempt
>> to prepare such bpo but I have no idea ho hard that would be, any
>> input here?
>
> Hi Sandro,
>
> Backporting Scala to Jessie shouldn't be that difficult, it will require
> two new packages scala-xml and scala-parser-combinators which aren't in
> Jessie. The only trick is the recursive build dependency on scala
> itself. You'll have to install the package manually in pbuilder to
> satisfy the dependency.
>
> I don't have the time to work on this now, so any help would be welcome.
>
> Emmanuel Bourg
>



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