kotlin2 in Debian -- 2025W28 to W30 update

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

Good evening,

Progress on this project these last 3 weeks was slow but still happened.

Le 2025-07-01 16:49, Julien Plissonneau Duquène a écrit :
> take care under these heat domes,

The weather in Brittany over the two weeks of DebCamp/DebConf was just 
perfect, and the bath at plage du Dellec was definitely refreshing, as 
was the cider ;)

Back to kotlin2, I'm now satisfied with the list of dependencies I 
extracted with my custom plugin. There are probably still errors and 
omissions lurking in the report but it is now good enough to figure out 
what the priorities are, and which features can be dropped until we get 
the dependencies they use in Debian.

It now looks like the next big step will be to update the 
intellij-community-idea source package, and make it build a bunch of new 
libraries that are now needed by this version of Kotlin. I will get in 
touch with Vladimir to discuss that with him, as he has some information 
about what JetBrains is planning to make their packaging easier.

This week expect a report and followup about the Java/JVM BoF, and 
further progress on kotlin2 build and planning.

Cheers,

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Julien Plissonneau Duquène