Andreas Barth <a...@ayous.org> writes: > * Dimitri John Ledkov (x...@debian.org) [140429 23:34]:
>> of course not, do a bootstrap each time, or provide a separate >> bootstrap package in the archive, such that other people can reproduce >> the boostrap process. circular build-dependency on one-self is always >> bad. > You mean like e.g. gcc should be able to bootstrap without gcc? (I > would consider it ok for at least all compilers in build-essential.) The "standard" way to do this is to hand-inject the first package (usually by cross-building it) and then build-depend on yourself, meaning that you use the existing compiler in the archive to build the next version for the archive. See, for example, gnat-4.6. Shipping a pre-compiled binary doesn't sound like the best solution. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87mwf3dcnp....@windlord.stanford.edu
