Bug#639910: SBT Debian packaging suspended

[Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>]

Hi,

since I've been asked: I'm currently writing my bachelor thesis and won't 
continue working on SBT Debian packaging until after easter holidays.

However in general I'd strongly suggest that packaging of SBT for a 
distribution is only continued, if upstream can be convinced to support a 
build path without a previous SBT binary, e.g.:

1. build a minimal SBT without SBT
2. build the full SBT with the minimal SBT from 1.

I spent a full week to compile SBT without SBT (and learning more about Scala 
and SBT). Any third party scripts to bootstrap SBT could break at any time and 
require a lot of work to fix, if upstream does not support this build 
strategy.

"Initial attempt to support build without sbt":
https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/pull/308

Best regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro