Hi Andreas, Le 20/11/2017 à 18:45, Andreas Schildbach a écrit : > I wonder is there a specific reason Gradle is stuck at version 3.2.1 in > Debian? These days, many projects require version 4.1 or later (due to > the Android build chain having this requirement).
Gradle 3.2.1 was released just one year ago, it isn't that old. Gradle upgrades are usually difficult to deal with due to a mix of backward incompatible changes, integration issues with other Debian libraries and puzzling build errors. We are just a handful of volunteers watching over ~1000 Java packages, some help would be welcome. > Also, on Ubuntu since a approx. a year Gradle doesn't even start when > installed via apt: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnative-platform-java/+bug/1683761 Well, that's the issue with Ubuntu cutting its releases in the middle of the Debian development cycles, sometimes they pick inconsistent sets of Java packages. Emmanuel Bourg
