Re: Getting Maven Into Main - What Next?

[Paul Cager <paul-debian@home.paulcager.org>]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Paul Cager:
> 
>> Now that we are making progress with packaging Maven's
>> Build-Dependencies, I'm beginning to wonder what happens next. I've
>> noticed from the JavaCC packaging that it seems to be all right to
>> include a "bootstrap jar" in the upstream source. Is this right? I guess
>> to be valid:
>>
>>    * When building the package a new Jar must be built (from source)
>>      that could replace the bootstrap Jar.
> 
> This is a bit tricky.  Theoretically, you are supposed to bootstrap
> from an installed version (IOW, a self-depdency).

So we couldn't use bootstrapping to get the *first* version into Debian?
We could only use version (n-1) to build version (n)?

> However, several
> packages (Ocaml, for instance) bootstrap from blobs.

Ah - so we might get away with it? Maybe I should use ask the FTP masters?

> In case of
> source code generators, it's also common to ship the processed source
> files.

Yes, that's a possibility.