Bug#992113: release-notes: Initial availability of Bazel build system in Debian
Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
Dear Release Team,
If possible, please include the following in section 2.2 (What's new in the
distribution?) of the release notes for the following architectures:
amd64, arm64, ppc64el, s390x, ppc64, riscv64
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2.2.x Initial availability of the Bazel build system
The [Bazel](https://bazel.build/) build system is available in Debian starting with this release. This is a bootstrap variant that will not include local versions of the extended Bazel ecosystem. However, the current package **does** provide identical functionality to core upstream Bazel, with the advantage of convenient Debian package management for the installation. While building Debian packages is not currently recommended, any software that supports Bazel builds should build normally using this Debian-native Bazel package. This includes build-time downloads of required dependencies.
The [Debian Bazel Team](https://salsa.debian.org/bazel-team/meta) is working to package an extensible version of Bazel for future Debian releases. This extensible version will allow additional components of the Bazel ecosystem to be included as native Debian packages. More importantly, this version will allow Debian packages to be built using Bazel. Contributions to the team are welcome!
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Please let me know if you have any questions. Feel free to make minor edits
if you think it will improve readability for users. I did NOT wrap the text
above at 80 columns since I hope that will make it easier to copy/paste it
into the release notes.
Thank you!
-Olek
(On behalf of the Bazel packaging team)
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