On 17 October 2012 19:30, Christoph Egger <christ...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > Joerg Jaspert <jo...@debian.org> writes: >> Its for after wheezy, definitely. >> Also, there are some open issues to be solved for this to happen. >> The most important is being able to deal with arch all packages. And >> worse - arch all packages able to build only on certain architectures. >> But thats outside dak and my area. Goto the buildd/wanna-build people to >> help for that. > > Also remeber, there are packages like cmucl that can only be built by > the same upstream release of itself and can currently survive in Debian > because the maintainer can upload a bootstrapped binary package along > the source
See Debian Policy 7.8 Additional source packages used to build the binary - Built-Using [1] Is exactly what should be used here. And the bootstrap package should be uploaded into Debian, to facilitate downstream users and distributions to bootstrap that package by themselves as well & provide a clear lock-step build-deps. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-built-using Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canbhlujckg-xsogfjevdn_bax0jvzy8jkouavvhphrkmyr7...@mail.gmail.com
