Scala 2.11.6 needs packaging

[Dmitry]

Scala 2.10.0 now available!

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/27499

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Fernando Racca (fracca)]

Please consider 2.10.1 or even 2.10.2 which is likely to be available by the time this is upgraded.

http://www.scala-lang.org/2.10.1

[Fernando Racca (fracca)]

Scala 2.10.2 is been available for quite some time now

http://www.scala-lang.org/news/2013/06/06/release-notes-v2.10.2.html

[Fernando Racca (fracca)]

Scala 2.10.3 has now been released. http://www.scala-lang.org/news/2013/10/01/release-notes-v2.10.3.html

Scala is a very popular language, so please consider upgrading to the latest stable version. Existing version 2.9.2 is very out of date.

[Alan Mortensen (alan-mortensen)]

This seems to have really been forgotten about. Libraries aren't even compatible between 2.9 and 2.10 so anyone wanting to use a recent version of most Scala libraries is gonna have to install their own Scala now and that's with a release that's gonna be out there for a long long time. It shouldn't be starting out this far behind the curve.

[Naftoli Gugenheim (naftoligug)]

2.10.4 has been released. And 2.11.0 is nearing release.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

2.11.0 is released now.

[Naftoli Gugenheim (naftoligug)]

Fwiw you can download .debs on scala-lang.org.
 On May 13, 2014 2:46 PM, "Marius B. Kotsbak" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> 2.11.0 is released now.
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> Title:
> Scala 2.10.0 needs packaging
>
> Status in "scala" package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in "scala" package in Debian:
> New
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> Bug description:
> Scala 2.10.0 now available!
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[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

It works as a workaround, but the quality of the upstream package is bad:

$ lintian Downloads/scala-2.11.0.deb
W: scala: control-file-is-empty conffiles
W: scala: copyright-without-copyright-notice
E: scala: description-starts-with-package-name
E: scala: maintainer-address-missing LAMP/EPFL and Typesafe, Inc.
E: scala: depends-on-obsolete-package depends: openjdk-6-jre
W: scala: symlink-should-be-relative usr/bin/fsc /usr/share/scala/bin/fsc
W: scala: symlink-should-be-relative usr/bin/scala /usr/share/scala/bin/scala
W: scala: symlink-should-be-relative usr/bin/scalac /usr/share/scala/bin/scalac
W: scala: symlink-should-be-relative usr/bin/scaladoc /usr/share/scala/bin/scaladoc
W: scala: symlink-should-be-relative usr/bin/scalap /usr/share/scala/bin/scalap
W: scala: extra-license-file usr/share/doc/scala/LICENSE.md
W: scala: extra-license-file usr/share/doc/scala/License.rtf
W: scala: embedded-javascript-library usr/share/doc/scala/api/scala-compiler/lib/jquery.js

After that, Lintian just hangs (which makes it impossible to install it using software center).

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Well, it probably eventually finishes. See bug #1319295.o

[Naftoli Gugenheim (naftoligug)]

Thanks, I filed an issue with them: https://github.com/scala/scala-dist/issues/135

[Fernando Racca (fracca)]

This is highly embarrassing for Ubuntu. Scala support is so out of date is ridiculous.

With tens of thousands of developers, Scala should be supported out of the box. End of the story. Update now to Scala 2.11.4.

[Erich Schubert (erich)]

No, actually this is highly embarrassing for Scala.

Nobody seems to be able to build nice and clean scala packages.

Their build process is a mess, and the packages they provide are an ugly hack. They include native code (in jline), they include unnecessary dependencies (akka-actor), etc.

Scala needs a nice and clean build process. But it's too hip to care about Linux packaging best practises.

Everybody trying to build clean packages of scala (and sbt; as sbt seems to be the only way to build scala currently - and unfortunately, you need sbt to build sbt?!?) seems to give up quickly. This is embarrassing, the scala toolchain cannot bootstrap itself without having scala installed already?

[Fernando Racca (fracca)]

The scala package and SBT are two separate, important packages that developers need.

Regarding Scala, as a language, with a useful REPL, I think is very important to have a package readily available. Scala has become a widely used tool, yet the package been distributed by default is so out of date that no one would consider using it, to the point that you may as well remove it.

Before 16.04, an LTS release, Scala needs to be included in Ubuntu.

SBT is not a great installer, granted, but that's another ticket. But it doesn't need Scala installed as a requisite, it needs, in its present shape, Java installed.

I've mentioned this issues in their Mailing List before, but neither side seems willing to find a solution (Ubuntu or Typesafe), and its the end user who suffers from a poor experience.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I see that Scala 2.10.5-1 has been packaged in Debian now, and attempted synced to Ubuntu Wily. However, it currently fails to build there because it build depends on scala >= 2.10, i.e. itself. I'm not sure how to proceed here or how that can be bootstrapped.

[Naftoli Gugenheim (naftoligug)]

That's nice, now that 2.11.6 is released a while ago and projects are dropping support for 2.10 and thinking about supporting 2.12 milestones... ;)

[Fernando Racca (fracca)]

More information in this JIRA ticket:
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-9299

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Since the last time, Debian has packaged 2.11.6-1 along with new dependencies scala-parser-combinators and scala-xml. So the Debian bug watch will presumably be closed any time now.

Unfortunately these packages still have circular dependencies, so I don't know to proceed to get these built for Ubuntu...

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

It's already in 15.10 proposed: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/wily/scala/wily-proposed

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

This has been rebootstrapped in wily-proposed.