Bug#714596: a package should build from scratch

2014-02-07 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Control: severity -1 serious I failed to understand why this would be wishlist ? Shouldn't a package in debian always build nicely from scratch ? I understand that the task is tedious, but it should bootstrap nicely instead of having to manually do steps. Right ? __ This is the maintainer

Bug#714596: a package should build from scratch

2014-02-07 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
'Tedious' is probably an euphemism. There are many Java packages that can't be bootstrapped properly due to circular dependencies. If it's not a hard requirement mandated by the policies I don't think it's fair to mark this as serious. It's certainly nice to have, hence the wishlist severity, but