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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
