On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote:
> Le 18/07/2014 06:30, tony mancill a écrit : > > I'm adding Dave Beckett to the cc:, as he had put together packages for > > 2.10.3 and 2.10.4 back in April, and may have interest in the this > > effort. Medhi had raised concerns about those packages needing network > > connectivity - I think maven was pulling in some new dependencies - so, > > step 1 is to figure out how many missing dependencies there are. (If > > 2.11 has many more new dependencies than 2.10, then maybe we aim for > 2.10.) > > scala doesn't build with Java 8, and I believe this improved with the > version 2.11. So if we can aim higher this will help with the transition. > > I had a quick browse on the pkg-scala Debian mailing list and it appears the dependencies for 2.11 are fewer than for 2.10 [0]. So aiming for that should help all round. There have been a few people attempting it so it might be worth inviting them to Debian Java so that the work can be co-ordinated. [0] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-scala-maint/2014-May/000990.html
