Re: Bug#904978: ITP: protobuf-2 -- This is the protobuf pacakge but version 2.6.1 same as that foudn in jessie but is being packaged to unstable since kotlin-1.1.1 needs it. p.s kotlin-1.1.1 is also being packaged to unstable.

[殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan]

Yes, that Kotlin by Jetbrains. Packaging a language is quite complicated, and 
we are bootstrapping an older version (so the process can be a lot easier), and 
then we will update it to the latest version once it's accepted.

Bastian Blank 於 2018年07月30日 16:58 寫道:
> Please reply to the bug-report and debian-devel@lists.debian.org, which
> I forgot as well.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:52:02PM +0530, Saif Abdul Cassim wrote:
>> that is the latest version of kotlin we are packaging 1.1.1 since we dont
>> have the latest gradle version to do that.
> 
> So I found the correct software called kotlin?  Why do you want to
> introduce an old version?
> 
> With my FTP head on: if you want to introduce unsupported software, you
> need to be way more specific.
> 
> Bastian
>