Bug#757760: debian-policy: please document build profiles

2017-07-18 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Ben Hutchings (2017-07-17 02:17:12) > However, I can see it has changed since I last looked and now says that > "stage1" has been deprecated. I don't understand why this is or how we're > supposed to give this hint to bootstrapping tools now. When package maintainers implement build

Bug#757760: debian-policy: please document build profiles

2017-07-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 at 09:06:23 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > It is not intended to completely forbid the "stage1" profile name. It is clear > that it has its use for the initial cross-compiler bootstrap involving glibc, > gcc and linux. I suspect stage1 might also still be useful for