kotlin2 in Debian -- 2025W15 update

[Julien Plissonneau Duquène <sre4ever@free.fr>]

Grüß Gott,

A patch stack of one thousand changes begins with a single file, or 
something like that.

I'm starting slowly and carefully with kotlin, trying to reuse some of 
the logic I've already written for Gradle 8 as many recipes are going to 
be useful there as well. This will probably end up with a lot of 
duplicated but slightly different code that I plan to clean up or factor 
into the Debian gradle helper later once the build tools are in a 
reasonably stable shape.

Now I have to spend some time reviewing and commenting the list of 
dependencies and then comparing it to the one that Vladimir Petko 
extracted for Kotlin 2.1, while removing the non-critical missing 
dependencies from Kotlin build scripts, and eventually starting to drop 
some features.

Among the things that will be different from  the Kotlin 1.3 package, 
the test suites and data sets were imported for this Kotlin 2 package 
and I'm planning to make it possible to run at least some of them.

Le 2025-04-04 20:50, Julien Plissonneau Duquène a écrit :
> BSP in Wien

Arrived there about 2 hours ago and met a welcoming, colored and 
friendly bunch. I'm going to take advantage of the DDs on site to upload 
fixes on a few annoying RC bugs, targeting in priority those that 
prevent other packages from migrating. I will start with an attempt to 
backport a fix for bouncycastle from the unreleased 1.81 branch.

Tschüss,

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Julien Plissonneau Duquène