Re: Status of kotlin in Debian unstable

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Quoting Emmanuel Bourg (2026-07-08 12:34:46)
> ([email protected] is for package=20
> notifications, discussions should go to [email protected])

thank you for forwarding my message to the right list?

> Le 08/07/2026 =C3=A0 09:26, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues a =C3=A9crit=
=C2=A0:
> > I'm maintaining src:reform-tools for the MNT Reform open hardware lapto=
p. My
> > package has been unable to migrate to testing for 41 days and has since=
 been
> > removed from testing. The reason is a meta-package which depends on
> > fonts-jetbrains-mono which itself requires kotlin to build and kotlin is
> > RC-buggy since March.
> >=20
> > I was wondering what the status of kotlin was in Debian and whether I s=
hould
> > rather switch away from fonts-jetbrains-mono (which also has been remov=
ed from
> > testing) due to the issues with kotlin or whether I should rather wait =
for
> > kotlin to get fixed?
>=20
> Kotlin just needs to be rebuilt with OpenJDK 17 to pick the Java 25=20
> fixes in intellij-community-idea/183.5153.4-7, so this issue is likely=20
> to be fixed.

As in: a binNMU has to be triggered?

> That said, relying on Kotlin to build a font remains a risk, I think it=20
> would be wise to rewrite the fonts-jetbrains-mono's Kotlin script in=20
> pure Java [1], any LLM should be able do that in a second.

Why is it a risk to have this script be written in kotlin?

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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