Re: sbt / scala and jdk 6 and 8

2019-02-12 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 12.02.19 um 23:14 schrieb Thomas Finneid: [...] > Is Scala and Sbt the only software that haven't migrated away from > jdk-8? considering how much time and money the entire world has invested > in jdk-8, I think its a bit early to remove it. > > (At work, 70 developers have spent the last half

Re: sbt / scala and jdk 6 and 8

2019-02-12 Thread Thomas Finneid
On 12.02.2019 22:56, Markus Koschany wrote: Hi, Am 12.02.19 um 22:45 schrieb Thomas Finneid: [...] Is there a jdk6 version available in Debian? I think I have read something about removing jdk-8 from debian, is that correct? Also, if I understand the Debian/Java Policy correctly, all jvm-ba

Re: sbt / scala and jdk 6 and 8

2019-02-12 Thread Markus Koschany
Hi, Am 12.02.19 um 22:45 schrieb Thomas Finneid: [...] > Is there a jdk6 version available in Debian? I think I have read > something about removing jdk-8 from debian, is that correct? > > Also, if I understand the Debian/Java Policy correctly, all jvm-based > packages must depend on default-jre/

sbt / scala and jdk 6 and 8

2019-02-12 Thread Thomas Finneid
Hi I have been looking into language and jdk version requirements for the different version of sbt and scala, for compiling and running. I have experienced problems if they did not compile or run on their target jdk versions. So far I have concluded that sbt 0.13.17 requires jdk-6 to compile

Re: old version of scala

2019-02-12 Thread Markus Koschany
Hi Thomas, [I add debian-java back to CC in case someone else can reply with something helpful] Am 12.02.19 um 22:17 schrieb Thomas Finneid: > > > On 08.02.2019 22:12, Markus Koschany wrote: >> First of all thank you for your interest in helping us to improve Scala >> in Debian. Unfortunately n

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM 19 Debian Java talk

2019-02-12 Thread Robert Scholte
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:34:56 +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: Hello, Dalibor Topic (Oracle) and Robert Scholte (Apache Maven) contacted me and were so kind to agree to make this discussion public, so that others can chime in too. I would like to use the opportunity to answer the initial question

Re: Please remove repository the now outdated java-team/milib (package was moved to med-team)

2019-02-12 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 12/02/2019 à 14:35, Andreas Tille a écrit : > Since I have no permission to remove repositories in java-team could you > be so kind to remove the now outdated repository[2]. Done Emmanuel Bourg

Re: Please remove repository the now outdated java-team/milib (package was moved to med-team)

2019-02-12 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, I was the one who once thought to have done well to create the java package with the Java repository. But Andreas is right. Please have it moved. I cannot remote the repository I created, either. Many thanks! Steffen On 12.02.19 14:35, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, the description of m

Please remove repository the now outdated java-team/milib (package was moved to med-team)

2019-02-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, the description of milib is bioinformatics related and a clear target of Debian Med team. "Hiding" the package in Debian Java is escaping the QA measures we have in our team and thus I realised bug #920839 very late and only by chance. Thus I have moved the package to Debian Med[1] in my lat

Fwd: FOSDEM 19 Debian Java talk

2019-02-12 Thread Markus Koschany
Hello, Dalibor Topic (Oracle) and Robert Scholte (Apache Maven) contacted me and were so kind to agree to make this discussion public, so that others can chime in too. I would like to use the opportunity to answer the initial question "what we are interested in seeing better supported from build t