Update Scala 2.8.1.final has been released

[Dmitry]

Binary package hint: scala

I would like to request an update of the scala package.
The latest stable release is 2.8.1 final.
This release addresses a large number of bugs (see http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8102).

[soc (simon-ochsenreither)]

Any progress here? It really looks like Ubuntu is letting the development tools rot.

OpenJDK7 PPA: Not installable since months.
Haskell: Seriously outdated. haskell-platform is still from 2010 (Haskell 6)
Scala: Seriously outdated, unmaintained version in repo, while 2.8 is out for ages already. (And Scala 2.9 will be out in a few weeks.)

Haskell and Scala packages are in Debian testing/unstable. Maybe just sync it from there?

[soc (simon-ochsenreither)]

Just checked. Considering the support of Ubuntu 11.04 until October 2012 and the nature of the next Scala release (2.9 = bug fixes + library additions = more stable than 2.8) I recommend skipping 2.8 and going straight to 2.9.

At the moment the release candidate of Scala 2.9 is available. Shipping with 2.9RC and updating to final when it gets released seems to be the sensible thing to do here.

[Mehdi (mehdid)]

On 04/05/2011 02:27 PM, soc wrote:
> Just checked. Considering the support of Ubuntu 11.04 until October
> 2012 and the nature of the next Scala release (2.9 = bug fixes + library
> additions = more stable than 2.8) I recommend skipping 2.8 and going
> straight to 2.9.
>

"library additions" generally doesn't imply "more stable", imo.

> At the moment the release candidate of Scala 2.9 is available. Shipping
> with 2.9RC and updating to final when it gets released seems to be the
> sensible thing to do here.
>

I'd keep 2.8 until 2.9-final is out (and well tested).

Regards,

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[soc (simon-ochsenreither)]

@Mehdi

Hi,

With "library additions = more stable" I wanted to imply that there weren't any big changes of language syntax or semantics, so the compiler is much stable.

I just think that it would be sensible to actually ship with a current and supported version, considering the standard response to most Scala questions online is "did you verify it with the latest version? try it and report back, please".

[Dmitry (dmitry-korolyov)]

Hey,

Great news, Scala 2.9.0 final is out!
See http://www.scala-lang.org/node/9483 for language changes and http://www.scala-lang.org/node/299 for resolved bugs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package scala - 2.8.1.dfsg-1

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scala (2.8.1.dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Mehdi Dogguy ]
  * New upstream release (Closes: #589110, #603529) (LP: #717745).
  * Use upstream build system (and re-write packaging).
  * Set a fixed version number (The one from META-INF/MANIFEST.MF).
  * Remove README{,.Debian}: they used to contain useless and outdated
    informations.
  * Added a dependency on libjline-java for Scala.
  * Add libmaven-ant-tasks-java, ant-contrib and ant-optional in
    Build-Depends.
  * Switch to source format 3.0 (quilt).
  * Add patch 0001-Use-system-ant-contrib.jar.patch
  * Bump standards version to 3.9.1

  [ Frank S. Thomas ]
  * Update debian/copyright for the new release.
 -- Fabrice Coutadeur <email address hidden> Fri, 20 May 2011 10:44:41 +0000