Gradle version in bookworm
Apologies if this is a dumb and/or frequently-answered question,
but... does anyone know why the version of the "gradle" build tool in
bookworm is version 4?
The version in bookworm, 4.4.1-18, was migrated to testing in January
of this year -- an upgrade from version 4.4.1-13 -- at which time the
latest upstream version was at least version 7. So it doesn't appear
to be a "package not maintained any more" issue... The maintainers
appear to be the Debian Java maintenance team, who I would assume
would be unlikely to wander off... Bug reports against the package are
beginning to show evidence that people are finding the age of the
package a problem as unit tests and even some build dependencies
become harder and harder to support.
Gradle is not some minority, hardly-used tool, so there is presumably
a reason why the package hasn't been updated in Debian. Anyone know
what it is?
Thanks!
Mark
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