kotlin2 in Debian -- 2025W33 update

Good afternoon,

and happy Debian Day! I'll celebrate this at the beach later today (also 
to escape the heatwave) ;)

Le 2025-08-11 00:06, Julien Plissonneau Duquène a écrit :
> 
> still sifting through the new releases to remove unwanted content

I'm mostly done with both the latest and the older tag I'll package 
first and should be able to prepare and push packaging updates for 
excluded files and some metadata, and clean updates to the 
"upstream/latest" branch. After that I'll have to skim the diffs between 
releases to spot possible remaining issues, then start to work on 
updating the packaging, patches and custom Gradle build. There are 4.5 
(6.5 to the latest) years of updates of a fairly large and active code 
base to process so it takes some time.

In the meantime Vladimir built an updated kotlinx-coroutines [1] [2] 
package with bootstrap packages of gradle8 and kotlin2. Later I would 
like to try to downgrade the build scripts and patch the sources to get 
it built with gradle 4 and kotlin 1.3.31 and check if that old kotlin 
can work with it but that's not the priority right now. Not sure what 
Vladimir will pick next, but kotlinx.serialization looks like a good 
candidate.

This week Vladimir also started a process to become a DM, so we now both 
looking for kind DDs that could submit signed advocacy statements [3] 
[4] for us.

Cheers,


[1]: 
https://launchpad.net/~vpa1977/+archive/ubuntu/gradle8-dependencies/+sourcepub/17500805/+listing-archive-extra
[2]: 
https://code.launchpad.net/~vpa1977/ubuntu/+source/kotlinx-coroutines/+git/kotlinx-coroutines
[3]: https://nm.debian.org/process/1422/advocate/
[4]: https://nm.debian.org/process/1424/advocate/