Bug#661537: Support for staged/bootstrap builds to break cyclic build-dependencies

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 20:00, Wookey <wookey@debian.org> wrote:
> This little patch allows Build-Depends-Stage1 to be added to package
> control files, which is the proposed solution to this issue.

Is the discussion on that feature completed?
I vaguely recall "complains" about the naming and such stuff.
(Just want to avoid that this ends in a disaster like multiarch…)


> If we can get it into Wheezy then it will be easy to do work on this
> problem without needed a patched apt.

Attached was a patch for dpkg and the wiki also only mentions one
for dpkg. If there is one for APT and the feature is frozen i am sure
Michael will be fine with pushing it for wheezy.


I am not sure through how apt is supposed to be useful in this context
as it is high in the stack (in terms of bootstrapping), but i need to confess
that i consider bootstrapping "magic" so far, so i am properly wrong.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies