Seeking sponsor for updating Scala 2.11 package to 2.12

[Thomas Finneid <tfinneid@fcon.no>]

Hi

After much work (and previous discussions on this list and with the 
Scala team) I have finally created a shell script that builds Scala 
2.12.0-M1, instead of the circular dependency of Scala and Sbt.

I am currently refreshing my limited knowledge of creating a debian 
package and finetuning the build-script.

Currently Debian has a Scala 2.11.12 package, which I am using for 
creating the next version, which is 2.12.0-M1. The process forward will 
be to create all the packages from M1 all the way to 2.12.10, which is 
about 17 packages. These will be interim packages, which does not really 
need to be complete, just enough to make the compiler build the next 
version. Unless one of the versions throws me a big surprise...

Since compiling Scala requires Jdk 8, all this should happen in Sid, and 
when the final version of Scala is built, it can be released and used 
with the latest supported version of the jdk in Debian stable.

Regards

Thomas