On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 01:20:43 +0100 Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:55:45AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:59:18 +0100 Sven Luther wrote: > > > > [...] > > > Nope, because you can ship the source code and the object file if > > > you wanted. > > > > > > Already now, major parts of debian/main are not cleanly buildable > > > out of the box, due to cyclic bootstraping dependencies. > > > > But those major parts of debian/main are cleanly buildable using an > > already functioning installation of debian/main, aren't they? > > No, not always. > > > At least I *hope* those major parts are buildable using only > > packages from debian/main, otherwise they would Build-Depend on > > out-of-main components, which is a Policy violation for a package in > > main, AFAIK. > > Well, It is not so much that you have to depend on out-of-main > components, but that you have to hand-build some of them and stop in > the middle and stuff like that. Well, that's suboptimal, but not a serious Policy violation, AFAICT. Feeewww! I can start breathing again, now... ;-) > > > If what I have just said is true and confirmed, then *that* is the > > difference: one thing is having cyclic bootstrapping dependencies > > that make an already compiled and installed system necessary, a > > completely different beast is something that needs an out-of-main > > compiler in order to be compiled... > > Well, the cross compiler would be built from the same gcc source in > main. There is just no binary package provided for those. [...] OK, this is not difficult to cure, then... -- But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend. -- from _Coming to America_ ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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