Florian Weimer wrote: > * Paul Cager: > >> Now that we are making progress with packaging Maven's >> Build-Dependencies, I'm beginning to wonder what happens next. I've >> noticed from the JavaCC packaging that it seems to be all right to >> include a "bootstrap jar" in the upstream source. Is this right? I guess >> to be valid: >> >> * When building the package a new Jar must be built (from source) >> that could replace the bootstrap Jar. > > This is a bit tricky. Theoretically, you are supposed to bootstrap > from an installed version (IOW, a self-depdency).
So we couldn't use bootstrapping to get the *first* version into Debian? We could only use version (n-1) to build version (n)? > However, several > packages (Ocaml, for instance) bootstrap from blobs. Ah - so we might get away with it? Maybe I should use ask the FTP masters? > In case of > source code generators, it's also common to ship the processed source > files. Yes, that's a possibility. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
