Bug#933264: gradle: Nearly 3-year-old version almost useless
Matthias Geiger
matthias.geiger1024 at outlook.com
Fri Dec 1 12:06:28 GMT 2023
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 ?
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