permanently hidden warning in scala application

Question

I get the following warning whenever I start my Scala application:

WARN - imported `SVNProperties\' is permanently hidden by definition of object SVNProperties in packag

Answer 1

This happened to me after moving a class from one package to another, like in astasiak's case. I ran sbt clean with no luck. For the life of me, I couldn't find the class in the old location.

However, I had other errors preventing me from building. When I fixed those, this error disappeared. My guess is that until you can build cleanly, sbt still thinks you have the class is in the old package, and includes this error with any other build errors that are preventing you from building.

My advice? Check for other compilation errors and fix those -- you might be erroneously getting this error due to sbt having an outdated view of your package structure since its last successful build.