Apologies if this is a dumb and/or frequently-answered question, but... does anyone know why the version of the "gradle" build tool in bookworm is version 4?
The version in bookworm, 4.4.1-18, was migrated to testing in January of this year -- an upgrade from version 4.4.1-13 -- at which time the latest upstream version was at least version 7. So it doesn't appear to be a "package not maintained any more" issue... The maintainers appear to be the Debian Java maintenance team, who I would assume would be unlikely to wander off... Bug reports against the package are beginning to show evidence that people are finding the age of the package a problem as unit tests and even some build dependencies become harder and harder to support. Gradle is not some minority, hardly-used tool, so there is presumably a reason why the package hasn't been updated in Debian. Anyone know what it is? Thanks! Mark
