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 ?

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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 that doesn't limit our ability to use and modify the packages.

Emmanuel Bourg

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