Re: on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-29 Thread Daniel Schepler
On Monday, October 28, 2013 12:15:09 PM Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Le 27/10/2013 16:30, Daniel Schepler a écrit : (To be honest, the Java packages are such a tangled mess that I've given up on trying to bootstrap that part of the archive for now -- and many of those do get pulled into the

Re: on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-28 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 27/10/2013 16:30, Daniel Schepler a écrit : (To be honest, the Java packages are such a tangled mess that I've given up on trying to bootstrap that part of the archive for now -- and many of those do get pulled into the minimal set of ca. 1473 source packages I get with my criteria.)

on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Peter, Quoting peter green (2013-10-27 01:11:24) Johannes Schauer wrote: Until these two issues are fixed we will not be able to get an algorithmic answer to the question of what constitutes the minimum required set of packages. There is also the complication of what I will call

Re: on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote: Surely every maintainer of source packages involved in a Type 1 Self-Cycle knows about this issue. Because Type 2 Self-Cycles are non-obvious we could in the future (once build profiles are available) embed this information in the pts

Re: on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-27 Thread Daniel Schepler
Johannes Schauer wrote: Indeed, none of the Type 1 Self-Cycles are needed to bootstrap the core of Debian. Unfortunately though, most of the Type 2 Self-Cycles are. You will find many surprising (at least to me) examples in the section of Type 2 Self-Cycles under the above link. On the other

Re: on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Daniel, Quoting Daniel Schepler (2013-10-27 16:06:43) Johannes Schauer wrote: Indeed, none of the Type 1 Self-Cycles are needed to bootstrap the core of Debian. Unfortunately though, most of the Type 2 Self-Cycles are. You will find many surprising (at least to me) examples in the

Re: on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-27 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 27.10.2013 16:06, schrieb Daniel Schepler: Johannes Schauer wrote: Indeed, none of the Type 1 Self-Cycles are needed to bootstrap the core of Debian. Unfortunately though, most of the Type 2 Self-Cycles are. You will find many surprising (at least to me) examples in the section of Type 2