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, espec
ially 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.
Oh, and to state this explicitly: I'm happy to work on this if it'll help it get into Debian faster! I just don't want to step on anyone's toes if someone has already made significant progress on this ITP.