Re: Gradle version in bookworm
On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 05:21:55PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> Apologies if this is a dumb and/or frequently-answered question,
> but... does anyone know why the version of the "gradle" build tool in
> bookworm is version 4?
>
> The version in bookworm, 4.4.1-18, was migrated to testing in January
> of this year -- an upgrade from version 4.4.1-13 -- at which time the
> latest upstream version was at least version 7. So it doesn't appear
> to be a "package not maintained any more" issue... The maintainers
> appear to be the Debian Java maintenance team, who I would assume
> would be unlikely to wander off... Bug reports against the package are
> beginning to show evidence that people are finding the age of the
> package a problem as unit tests and even some build dependencies
> become harder and harder to support.
>
> Gradle is not some minority, hardly-used tool, so there is presumably
> a reason why the package hasn't been updated in Debian. Anyone know
> what it is?
>
Becuase it's Very Hard Work(TM).
Updating Gradle in Debian was proposed as a project under Freexian's
Project Funding initiative and it was accepted and work was done on it
for several months:
https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/project-funding/-/issues/19
However, it seems like there are rather serious blocking issues that
have halted progress.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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