Re: Bug#904978: ITP: protobuf-2 -- This is the protobuf pacakge but version 2.6.1 same as that foudn in jessie but is being packaged to unstable since kotlin-1.1.1 needs it. p.s kotlin-1.1.1 is also being packaged to unstable.

[Saif Abdul Cassim <saif.15@cse.mrt.ac.lk>]

kotlin is already bulky and needs atleast 8-9 more new pacakges and some of them are older versions, including all of them will make things more messed up when we try to update this. Kotlin 1.1.1 is not just for bootstrapping it provides the full functionality of kotlin 1.1.1.

On 30 July 2018 at 16:13, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 05:23:15PM +0800, 殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan wrote:
> Yes, that Kotlin by Jetbrains. Packaging a language is quite
> complicated, and we are bootstrapping an older version (so the process
> can be a lot easier), and then we will update it to the latest version
> once it's accepted.

If it's just for bootstrapping, I'd consider temporarily embedding the
older protobuf version in the kotlin source package instead, with a note
that this will be removed once you're on a current version.  That should
be less work for ftpmasters, quite possibly even less work for you, and
it doesn't make it look like the old version of protobuf is being
packaged for general use.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]