Quoting Paul Wise (2013-06-07 05:17:46) > I would suggest the approach taken by the recent GSoC projects related > to bootstrapping new ports. Multi-stage builds. First stage without > docs and second stage with docs. Only the second stage gets uploaded > to Debian. > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianBootstrap Above wiki page seems to recommend using <!stage1> syntack in Build-depends: lines which I believe is not supported as far back as oldstable (if in any official Debian suite at all), and references bug#661538 and #661537 still open. What to do *today* to express bootstrapping alternatives to circumvent circular build-dependencies? My concrete need is simpler than some, as it needs no special flags at build-time: I want librdf-trine-perl to enable most possible optional parts of its testsuite, including some parts which themselves build-depend on librdf-trine-perl. What I will do for now is to just add those extra build-dependencies and add a note to README.source which build-dependencies can be manually dropped in a custom bootstrap build. I realize how painful it is for those needing to bootstrap, but sadly neither DebianBootstrap nor CircularBuildDependencies provide concrete help for package developers at the moment, it seems. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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