Bug#639910: [Pkg-scala-maint] [sbt] SBT Debian packaging suspended
On 06/02/12 19:17, Josh Marcus wrote:
Just to echo Josh Suereth's post, it's important for my work to have
an nice apt repository that we can use to install the most recent
sbt. While it would be nice for the default debian package to be up
to date, a community maintained PPA is fine -- and I'd be happy to
help work on it.
To that point -- *is* there a current PPA with sbt that's usable?
Setting up a PPA (or some APT repository in general) that works out the
box, etc… is easy. Keeping it current, well maintained and working is
not obvious. Having one for each release and each APT distribution is
even more harder. Not impossible… but this work does not seem worth it,
IMHO. I'd be in favor of having it packages within the distribution to
get it working in all cases.
Before considering setting up an external APT repository in the wild,
I'd like to know if my original proposal¹ that hard to implement? I had
the feeling that it may be pretty easy to do, but no one replied… so I
wonder if I missed something…
¹: a self-contained tarball to bootstrap sbt, without needing network
access.
Regards,
--
Mehdi
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