Hi László and thanks for the quick reply. On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 3:43 AM László Böszörményi (GCS) <g...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Olek, > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 9:48 AM Olek Wojnar <o...@debian.org> wrote: > > The protobuf-util java package is required for building Bazel, among > other > > things. Not having this available in Debian is therefore holding up > packaging > > of the Bazel build system. Please enable building the protobuf-util > component > > in the existing brotobuf-java package. > Cool! I'm even interested about Bazel myself. But to answer your Yes, I'm very excited to get it working in Debian because it will enable a number of packages which currently use that build system and have been difficult or impossible to package. > question, libtruth-java needs to be updated and error-prone[1] needs > to be packaged first at least. Do you know if the Java team can handle > these? > I'm not on the Java team but I can definitely talk to them, and perhaps assist them if those packages aren't too tricky. (I'm no Java expert) So if we get those two packages taken care of then you'll be able to add the -util? -Olek