#1038744 Update Kotlin to 1.3.40 or higher to enable reflection for Jitsi

Package:
kotlin
Source:
kotlin
Submitter:
Timothy Pearson
Date:
2026-05-06 07:05:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1038744#5
Date:
2023-06-20 18:33:09 UTC
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When attempting to package Jitsi for Debian, I ran into a blocking issue due to Kotlin 1.3.31 not providing the typeOf() reflection function, which was introduced as experimental in Kotlin 1.3.40.  Since the lift to move from one minor version to another is probably less than the lift needed to rewrite Jitsi's reflection code through its entire codebase, it would be useful to upgrade Kotlin to at least 1.3.40 in the Debian archives.
#1038744#14
Date:
2025-03-21 08:43:04 UTC
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Hi,

Unfortunately there are rather extensive changes between 1.3.31 and
1.3.40 and it would take some significant work to package this release,
which would still be very outdated wrt. current upstream releases.

I've started to work on packaging 2.0.21 instead, hoping to be able to
upload an experimental package in a few weeks.

Best regards,