Hi, as Medhi suggested to me, I'm forwarding my questions here to debian Java packaging team. (Medhi answered in the bug : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639910#89 ) Any tip will be appreciated. Thanks,
F. > Hi, > I'd be interested in packaging sbt in debian, and I saw the debian bug > #639910 [1] > and this simple-build-t...@googlegroups.com thread [2] . > I guess there's not much progress, but I'm asking in case someone is active on > that. > Here is a summary of what I understood so far : > a) to build sbt, you need sbt > b) sbt [may] downloads components online when being used > c) sbt upstream does not provide nor will support alternate build process > (make, > ant, whatever) > d) it seems difficult to provide a standalone tarball of a given version of > sbt > (David M. Lee) > Is each point [still] correct ? > > I saw the proposition of Mehdi to ask the sbt upstream to propose a source > tarball of sbt and include a standalone version of sbt, but I didn't see any > answer (except if d) was one) > Also I wanted to ask Mehdi, if there wasn't another way by putting sbt in > nonfree. Or maybe have a sbt-bootstrap in nonfree, and a sbt in main that > would > be built from nonfree. Though, for sbt-bootstrap, we would need a self > contained > sbt (no internet download), right ? > Any help will be welcome, > Thanks and sorry for unburying such a hateful topic :) > > F. > > > 1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639910 > 2: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/simple-build-tool/bFaUvjn_j60