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

[Matthias Geiger]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 13:18:23 +0100 Matthias Geiger <werdahias at riseup.net> 
wrote:
 > On 01.12.23 13:16, Markus Koschany wrote:
 > > 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 to a newer version like 6.x (which is already superseded by 8.x) 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.
 >
 >
 > Awesome, thanks for your work on this !

Hi Markus,

is there anything blocking this ? Anything I can do to help ?

best,

-- 
Matthias Geiger <werdahias>
Debian Maintainer