Re: [Pkg-scala-maint] Binary blobs in source packages
On 12/13/2011 07:26 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 07:03:55PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>> On 12/13/2011 01:23 PM, Thomas Koch wrote:
>
>>> So is it ok to ship binaries in the source package that are only
>>> required during build? Can I do the same with simple-build-tool,
>>> which requires itself to build?
>
>> Depends on the need. It is quite common for compilers to have some
>> binaries to do the bootstrapping. Scala uses that since some parts
>> of the compiler are written in scala. And, of course, I make sure
>> that I ship new binaries only in the Debian package. Another
>> example is OCaml which needs an ocamlc to bootstrap itself.
>
> I think the traditional expectation here is that compilers will do
> their initial bootstrap using an out-of-archive binary, and that once
> in the archive, they'll be maintained using a self-build-depends
> instead.
>
You mean having a circular build-dependency? That isn't great :/
I've seen some packages doing that (don't recall which right now) but
didn't like it, tbh.
Regards,
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