Re: Bug#782654: Bug#838416: Bug#782654: Bug#838416: ITP: bazel -- Fast and correct automated build system by Google

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

Upstream seems to be friendly

Time to prod them:
https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/9408

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:57 PM Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 2020-04-08 19:43, Olek Wojnar wrote:
> > Bazel has suddenly become more important because it is preventing us
> > from getting packages working that would help with the COVID-19
> > pandemic. Due to the significance, I am copying the Debian Med team as
> > well as key people from this bug's history in the hopes of getting
> > something moving quickly.
> >
> > On Tue, 22 May 2018 14:55:19 -0600 Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>
> > wrote:
> >> I spent a while working on it off and on, but there is a decent amount
> >> of tweaking and other packaging work needed to get policy-compliant
> >> bazel packages.  (E.G: There are quite a few binary JAR files shipped
> >> in the upstream tarball that don't necessarily match the versions in
> >> Debian).
> >>
> >> I just didn't have the spare time, especially now that I have a kid,
> >> to sink into one package.
> >
> > I can relate to the kid/time issues! ;) Have you had any time to work
> > on it recently? Did you ever upload any of your work?
> >
> > In the meantime, I see that Bazel has an unofficial Ubuntu build [1].
> > Do you know anything about that? It seems like a good place for us to
> > start if you aren't close to a product yourself.
>
> That's the build Google provides that is built with Bazel itself, using
> a ton of vendored libraries. (Because that's how Google operates
> internally.)
>
> Generally the pkg_deb output[1] is not really policy-compliant and more
> built from the ground up without any Debian tooling. So the /mere
> existence/ of that package (which was there from the beginning) does not
> help the quest of getting Bazel packaged for Debian, unfortunately.
>
> Kind regards
> Philipp Kern, obviously not speaking for Google
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/f828b4c77805ad0ea6afecef798aa69d68bec8d4/scripts/packages/debian/BUILD#L69