On Tue, 2023-05-09 at 22:24 +0200, Pierre Gruet wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Le 09/05/2023 à 18:36, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > Hi Pierre, > > > > Am Mon, May 08, 2023 at 10:50:54PM +0200 schrieb Pierre Gruet: > > > > > > It is very nice to hear from you on Nextflow, this is a > > > motivation booster > > > for the packaging! > > > > +1 > > > > > I have indeed packaged many dependencies, and if I remember > > > correctly I had > > > two issues at this step: > > > - kryo 5.x is needed although we have libkryo-java/2.7 in Debian, > > > which > > > cannot be upgraded to version 5.x as it would break gradle (!). > > > So we need a > > > dedicated src:kryo5 package, I began doing it but took a break > > > for whatever > > > reason; > > > > If we need two versions of kryo it needs passing new - thus you can > > upload > > it at any time, thought. > > True, yes. > > > > > > - more annoying: I need groovy 3.x and in Debian we have groovy > > > 2.4.21. I > > > tried to package it but met some antlr4 issues on which I have to > > > spend more > > > time. > > > > > > I think reworking on this will be a good task after the release > > > of Bookworm. > > > I can try again and post possible issues here. > > > > May be groovy can be upgraded in experimental to version 3.x? > > Possibly I have been unclear there, sorry: when trying to build > groovy > 3.x, I had issues linked to antlr4 which prevented me from completing > the whole build, so I am not even ready to propose a working upgrade > of > groovy... but since then, I have met other issues with antlr4 in > other > packages and could circumvent some of them, so I guess I should just > try > again as I now have more experience, and possibly coordinate with > other > interested people in debian-java.
groovy is definitly a Java tool needed for many java packages, you should get help/interest from debian-java for this. I already had issue with previous groovy versions and antlr too, upgrades breaking stuff.... Olivier > > > > > Thanks a lot for working on all these dependencies! > > And thanks for advising! :) > > > > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > > > Best, > > -- > Pierre -- Olivier Sallou Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA Irisa, Campus de Beaulieu F-35042 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438
