Re: gradle reboot

Le 26/11/2024 à 14:09, Markus Koschany a écrit :

> I discarded the idea to upgrade Gradle to 6.x or even newer releases because
> the main problem with Gradle for Debian is the complex interaction between its
> (build)-dependencies. Since we only support one version of a library in
> general, you will quickly reach a point where you are stuck in a loop between
> upgrading existing Debian packages, then fixing broken reverse-dependencies,
> and then moving on to build Gradle offline. And for me those iterations never
> seemed to end.

Markus raises a good point, I would add that if there is a risk at some 
point of breaking the existing packages after upgrading a dependency, 
then introducing a new package for the updated dependency is the way to 
go. We can deduplicate the dependencies later when the transition to the 
newer Gradle is complete.

Emmanuel Bourg