Hi, A short reminder, since there is now a date: scala and scala-asm will be removed from testing on 2026-11-01, and with them pilon, json4s, scopt and htsjdk with its users (picard-tools, fastqc, snpeff, artemis and others), see https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi. htsjdk can leave that list on its own: 5.0.0+dfsg-2 drops the scala-library build dependency and can be uploaded now that gradle 4.6-3 is in unstable (https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/htsjdk/-/merge_requests/1).
The cause is https://bugs.debian.org/1142168. scala-asm 9.9.0 is a migration candidate and passes every policy, but britney skips it with "scala-faux-build-depends": it Breaks scala (<< 2.12), so the build dependencies of scala 2.11 become uninstallable in testing. Uploading scala 2.12 is the only clean fix. The package has no new binaries, so it does not go through NEW. It is ready for review in https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/scala/-/merge_requests/2 (self-hosting build without sbt, two builds byte-identical, autopkgtest, and ratt on the 14 reverse build dependencies). The reverse dependencies are ready too: the latexdraw MR is approved by its uploader (https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/latexdraw/-/merge_requests/3), and the plm and pilon MRs wait only for scala. The whole chain (2.12, 2.13, 3) was rebuilt in upload order from a clean sid; the order and how to build each package are in https://salsa.debian.org/mendezr/scala/-/wikis/Upload-order Scala 2.12 is also the first step of a longer plan. I am writing dh-scala (https://salsa.debian.org/mendezr/dh-scala), a debhelper build system for Scala libraries without sbt, plus a generator that starts a package from its Maven Central POM. It already builds scala-xml-2.12 and scala-parser-combinators-2.12 with classes byte-identical to their hand-written builds, and libraries for Scala 2.13 and 3 too. Nothing to review there yet: scala 2.12 comes first. Thanks, Juan
