Philipp and Bastien, Thank you both for your responses!
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 4:23 PM Bastien ROUCARIES < roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> wrote: > Upstream seems to be friendly > > Time to prod them: > https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/9408 Thanks for highlighting that. It indeed seems that they will likely realize the importance of their software right now and help. Pinged. :) [1] > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:57 PM Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > On 2020-04-08 19:43, Olek Wojnar wrote: > > > > > > In the meantime, I see that Bazel has an unofficial Ubuntu build [1]. > > > Do you know anything about that? It seems like a good place for us to > > > start if you aren't close to a product yourself. > > > > That's the build Google provides that is built with Bazel itself, using > > a ton of vendored libraries. (Because that's how Google operates > > internally.) > Ah, ok. Good to know. Thanks. Might be better to just start with a vanilla source package then. I'm playing around with it just to see what I can get working while we wait for a reply to my ping on Bastien's GitHub issue. > > Generally the pkg_deb output[1] is not really policy-compliant and more > > built from the ground up without any Debian tooling. So the /mere > > existence/ of that package (which was there from the beginning) does not > > help the quest of getting Bazel packaged for Debian, unfortunately. > > > > Kind regards > > Philipp Kern, obviously not speaking for Google > > > > [1] > > > https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/f828b4c77805ad0ea6afecef798aa69d68bec8d4/scripts/packages/debian/BUILD#L69 Well that's not as encouraging as I'd hoped but still good information to have. Sounds like our best shot for getting something working in the near-term is active cooperation and support from Google. Here's hoping they support that!! -Olek
