Bug#639910: Packaging sbt

[Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>]

Hi Marko,

Le 8/12/2016 à 21:56, Marko Dimjašević a écrit :

> In a nutshell, Emmanuel packaged Scala 2.10 because it's a dependency
> for SBT, and the scala package moved to 2.11.8 in the meantime. Me being
> a newbie wrt Debian packaging had a hard time using it in the form he
> made it available in (it is not in the official Debian repos, but in a
> Java Debian team repo) to continue working on packaging SBT

The scala-2.10 package can be used by adding this to /etc/apt/sources.list:

  deb     https://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org unstable/
  deb     https://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org experimental/

Then run "apt update" and "apt install scala-2.10"


> I don't know if it's just me, but I find it hard to contribute in the
> current setting - there are just so many things to do to package SBT,
> there is so much I don't know about, then what is probably a simple and
> quick task for experienced developers takes a whole eternity for me, and
> I have a feeling as if most of the time I'm just moving around with a
> blindfold over my eyes. This is not to say I don't appreciate what
> others have helped with (it was mostly Emmanuel); I do appreciate it!

This isn't just you, packaging SBT is a difficult task, even for an
experienced developer. Maybe you'll be able to help more easily if
Frederic manages to bootstrap the first version of the sbt package.


> The way I see it, it would be most effective if we made a clear list of
> things to do, splitted it into small tasks, and then a few of us got
> together online (e.g., IRC) and worked on this for a couple of hours. Of
> course, with someone experienced on board to guide those of us that are
> less experienced.

This is a good idea. I don't have enough free time to work on packaging
Scala libraries, but I'll be happy to chime in and share some advices
when possible.

Emmanuel Bourg