Scala package owner unresponsive

[Antoine Gourlay]

Great news! Thanks for doing this.

Do you have the log output of the failing tests?

Also, the Source0 URL doesn't work (404) with the new layout of the
scala-lang website, it should now be
"http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/scala-sources-%{fullversion}.tgz"

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Will Benton <willb at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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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