FYI, sbt was recently made available in experimental [1]. So if Zax or someone else is still interested, perhaps he or she could try building scala 2.12.x using sbt on an experimental branch?
[1] https://packages.debian.org/experimental/sbt Best regards, Ghis __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.