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>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Saif Abdul Cassim <saif.15@cse.mrt.ac.lk>

* Package name    : protobuf-2
  Version         : 2.6.1
  Upstream Author : Google Inc (mentioned in debian/copyrights file)
* URL             : https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
* License         : (BSD, APACHE 2.0)
  Programming Lang: (java,python)
  Description     : 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.

This pacakge is need for kotlin-1.1.1 which now being packaged for debian, the current protobuf-3 in stable and above are incompactible with kotlin.