Quoting Emmanuel Bourg (2026-07-08 12:34:46) > ([email protected] is for package > notifications, discussions should go to [email protected])
thank you for forwarding my message to the right list? > Le 08/07/2026 à 09:26, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues a écrit : > > I'm maintaining src:reform-tools for the MNT Reform open hardware laptop. My > > package has been unable to migrate to testing for 41 days and has since been > > removed from testing. The reason is a meta-package which depends on > > fonts-jetbrains-mono which itself requires kotlin to build and kotlin is > > RC-buggy since March. > > > > I was wondering what the status of kotlin was in Debian and whether I should > > rather switch away from fonts-jetbrains-mono (which also has been removed > > from > > testing) due to the issues with kotlin or whether I should rather wait for > > kotlin to get fixed? > > Kotlin just needs to be rebuilt with OpenJDK 17 to pick the Java 25 > fixes in intellij-community-idea/183.5153.4-7, so this issue is likely > to be fixed. As in: a binNMU has to be triggered? > That said, relying on Kotlin to build a font remains a risk, I think it > would be wise to rewrite the fonts-jetbrains-mono's Kotlin script in > pure Java [1], any LLM should be able do that in a second. Why is it a risk to have this script be written in kotlin? Thanks! cheers, josch
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