Re: Getting Maven Into Main - What Next?
* Paul Cager:
>> 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?
If there are architecture-dependent binary packages, they need to
built and uploaded manually, for each architecture. The same thing
happens when you break the chain. The upload history for MLton might
be quite instructive here.
It's basically a non-issue for architecture-independent packages. The
only requirement is that the package can be rebuilt with itself.
> We could only use version (n-1) to build version (n)?
You need to start from somewhere, obviously. 8-)
>> 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?
The current Java policy requires that you strip the JARs. Not that it
is rigorously followed, but you should decide first what you actually
want, and then you can pester the ftpmasters.
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