Scala package owner unresponsive

[Will Benton]

If it's more convenient to import a SRPM (of course it is!), I've made one available at http://freevariable.com/scala

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Will Benton" <willb at redhat.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:32:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Scala package owner unresponsive
> 
> I have made a spec file for Scala 2.10.1 that successfully builds under mock
> on F19; it is available here:
> 
>    https://github.com/willb/scala-packaging
> 
> I had to make a new patch to account for interface changes in JLine 2.7,
> disable optimization (due to a known bug in the Scala optimizer), and
> disable several tests that failed spuriously (as far as I can tell).  But I
> think the package should be at least as good as the one we had before.
> 
> Jochen Schmitt, are you willing to update the build in F19 and rawhide with
> these fixes?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Will Benton" <willb at redhat.com>
> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
> > <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:26:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: Scala package owner unresponsive
> > 
> > I see that scala is on the to-be-retired list unless it starts building
> > from
> > source.  I am interested in using Scala in Fedora, and will take on
> > maintainership (for a while, at least) if no one else is willing to fix it.
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jochen Schmitt" <Jochen at herr-schmitt.de>
> > > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
> > > <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 6:03:46 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Scala package owner unresponsive
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 09:41:52PM -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Will Benton <willb at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > (1)  As far as I can tell, the package for Scala 2.9.2 on F19
> > > > > (2.9.2-2)
> > > > > has broken dependencies; I can't install it via yum on my new F19
> > > > > install.  Is this the case for anyone else?  If so, wouldn't it be
> > > > > best
> > > > > to have a working Scala 2.9 package in F19 and introduce 2.10 in a
> > > > > later
> > > > > release?
> > > > 
> > > > Version 2.9.2-4 was built for F-18, but was never built for F-19 or
> > > > F-20.  The changelog entries for -3 and -4 say:
> > > 
> > > Yes, the reason fot this is very simple. On F18 we had a jdk-1.6.0
> > > environment in
> > > addition to the jdk-1.7.0. Scala was built explicitly agains jdk-1.6.0
> > > because jdk-1.7.0
> > > is not supported on this release.
> > > 
> > > Fedora 19 and late doesn't provides a jdk-1.6.0 environment which is the
> > > reason
> > > for the broken dependency. So it's impossible to build scala-2.9.x for
> > > F19
> > > or
> > > later releases for Fedora.
> > > 
> > > Best Regards:
> > > 
> > > Jochen Schmitt
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