bug#73432: clojure package is broken

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Andreas and Kristiyan,

Cc’ing Roman and Rostislav who are among the recent committers for this
file.

Andreas Bauer <andreas.wolfgang.bauer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now it can be fixed with time machine:
> 
> guix time-machine --commit=98e4bfe96f2c99daa0b66b65c1d379bb385301a8 -- guix
> shell --pure --development --check clojure-tools openjdk coreutils
> 
> Then in time-machine run again clojure-X:curl and the demo will work.

Kristiyan Kanchev <skrechy@gmail.com> skribis:

> I'm seeing issues with the project Metabase: 
> https://github.com/metabase/metabase. When `clojure -M:run`, it fails with:
> Execution error (ClassNotFoundException) at java.net.URLClassLoader/findClass 
> (URLClassLoader.java:476). 
> jakarta.servlet.AsyncContext
>
> The problem seems to be that Clojure CLI (`clojure-tools` guix package) 
> doesn't construct proper class path including all transitive
> dependencies of the project. I've tried to figure out what might be causing 
> the issue and I suspect `maven-resolver-*` packages. Clojure
> CLI depends on `tools.deps` clojure lib, which itself depends on 
> `maven-resolver-*`. There is a mention in the `tools.deps` changelog of
> reverting `maven-resolver-*` libs in version 0.18.1374 with comment "Revert 
> update of Maven resolver libs - seeing resolution
> differences".
> Here is the relevant commit:
> https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps/commit/04539cd060d41a528794c04b50a6aa2293b672ce
>
> Up until this date, `tools.deps` lists the older versions of maven-resolver-* 
> libs in its deps.end file. Since Guix uses the latest versions of
> maven-resolver-* libs, I think this is causing the issue.

Roman, Rostislav: does that ring a bell?

Thanks,
Ludo’.