Please move from native to Starlark rules for external git/http repositories

[aehlig]

From version 0.20 onwards, bazel by default will no longer support the native http and git repositories. Please switch to the Starlark versions of those rules.

For more background, see

• the original announcement https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bazel-discuss/dO2MHQLwJF0/discussion

• and the documentation of the incompatible changes https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/skylark/backward-compatibility.html#remove-native-git-repository

Once migrated, please also file an issue against http://github.com/bazelbuild/continuous-integration to reenable testing of your project as a bazel downstream project.

Thanks, Klaus

[hlopko]

Hi all, this flag is flipped now at bazel@HEAD and will be the default behavior of Bazel 0.20. I'll disable this project on our downstream pipeline (https://buildkite.com/bazel/bazel-with-downstream-projects-bazel/builds/537#1b0ccddf-8926-484c-98c7-e1e1484eb994). Please fix quickly and create an issue at bazelbuild/continuous-integration to reenable. Keep in mind that we are now not catching unintentional breakages of this project in bazel@HEAD.