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From: Olek Wojnar <olek@debian.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Help] gradle-plugin-protobuf
To: Samyak Jain <samyak.jn11@gmail.com>


Hi Samyak,

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 8:12 AM Samyak Jain <samyak.jn11@gmail.com> wrote:

> While parsing through dependencies for bundletools. Yesterday, on
> reviewing through the same I found a problem which is creating the
> conflict. The problem is that the upstream source package is moved from
> ws.antonov.gradle.plugins:gradle-plugin-protobuf:0.9.1 [2]
> to com.google.protobuf:protobuf-gradle-plugin:0.8.8 [3].
>

I have opinions on Gradle. Specifically, I feel that the plugin
infrastructure makes it very convenient for normal users but makes it
rather unsuitable for Debian packaging. Or, at least,
extraordinarily painful.

Therefore it is utter importance to update/switch to the latest upstream
> available. I'm ready to help with the update until unless someone is doing
> it, already.
>
> Also, a quick question, what will be the most feasible manner for the
> update? To archive the existing obsolete package and packaging the new
> upstream source (as we have a new tag versioning) or just update on the top
> of the existing repository (I don't know how feasible it would be).
>

If you insist on using Gradle, I think that you should package the Google
plugin separately. The names are already different so it may create some
confusion (the least of the problems with Gradle) but it will not create a
conflict. Putting essentially a different software package into an existing
repository is a recipe for disaster, IMHO. Not to mention the discrepancy
with version numbers. This way existing packages that use the old plugin
can continue to do so and newer packages can use the newer plugin. I see no
need to force an immediate transition.

-Olek

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[Help] gradle-plugin-protobuf Samyak Jain <samyak.jn11@gmail.com> - 2020-06-23 14:20 +0200
  Re: [Help] gradle-plugin-protobuf Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2020-06-23 14:30 +0200
    Re: [Help] gradle-plugin-protobuf Samyak Jain <samyak.jn11@gmail.com> - 2020-06-23 19:00 +0200
      Re: [Help] gradle-plugin-protobuf Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2020-06-23 19:50 +0200
  Fwd: [Help] gradle-plugin-protobuf Olek Wojnar <olek@debian.org> - 2020-06-23 19:20 +0200
    Re: [Help] gradle-plugin-protobuf Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2020-06-23 22:00 +0200

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