Re: gradle reboot -- 2025W04 update

Great news!  Congrats on hitting that major milestone!

Julien Plissonneau Duquène:
> Good evening,
> 
> Some great news for this week, as I got my "stage 0" gradle (the one that is 
> locally built by a pre-built binary distribution of Gradle from upstream) to 
> rebuild itself successfully.
> 
> Le 2025-01-17 19:22, Julien Plissonneau Duquène a écrit :
>>
>> investigate the current Gradle 8.11.1 stage 2 build failure (which looks like 
>> either a Kotlin compiler bug or a dependency on a feature that is missing in 
>> 1.3.31) and try to patch the build script to work around that.
> 
> It turned out that the amount of patching required was very reasonable given the 
> version gap. I had to patch a few more lines for Groovy as well, and was 
> delighted to achieve a successful build two days ago. It was also a pleasant 
> surprise to notice that the binaries generated by this "stage 1" build are 
> identical to those built by the "stage 0", which will make the rebootstrapping a 
> bit easier.
> 
> I'm currently working on packaging something that will be unfinished but could 
> be pushed to experimental to make it easier for others to try the new release, 
> and I have good hopes to achieve that by next week. Then there will still be 
> some significant work to update or package missing but important dependencies, 
> as currently some key features (configuration cache, HTML problem reports, TOML 
> version catalogs, ...) are disabled because of this.
> 
> Now I have a growing stack of TODO items for sponsors/uploaders willing to 
> participate ;) and published the planned steps for the migrations here [1] (will 
> update tomorrow).
> 
> Have a nice week-end,
> 
> 
> [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/jpd/gradle/-/blob/upgrade-to-8.11.1-wip/debian/ 
> wip/action-plan.md
>