On 19.02.2014 00:57, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > On 18.02.2014 23:35, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Timo Aaltonen: >> >>>> We have a bootstrapping issue with this.. upstream CVS repo ships with >>>> 'lib/bootstrap-relaxngcc.jar' which is used to generate the files for >>>> the parser. And since the source tarball can't include that relaxngcc >>>> has no way to enter Debian? >>>> >>>> Fedora doesn't seem to care, they used to have a version where it used >>>> the embedded jar file, but the one that entered the archive used the >>>> same build system as our original upload.. >>> >>> sending to debian-java too in case someone has ideas.. >> >> Just use a cyclic build dependency. They are annoying, but less >> problematic for Arch: all packages. > > How would that work in practice? Ship the generated files in the tarball > and document the build in README.source? Or try to build a stripped > version that's capable of generating the parser as a second stage?
Benjamin explained this to me.. but instead of fiddling this manually, we went with the original tarball but that the pre-generated files are rebuilt before the final jar is built. That should be good enough for the archive, no? -- t __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.