On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:15:15 -0800 Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote: > This seems pretty cool, but is there a reason why babel can't just > bootstrap itself from its own source package? Just checking briefly, its > makefile[1] seems to have code to bootstrap itself.
node-babel was accepted, the rejection was for node-babel-preset-env only. Anyway, node-babel also depends on node-babylon which in turn needs node-babel to build. > Also, have you discussed this with Thorsten or another ftp master > directly? Perhaps they just rejected it because the reasoning for the > build-dependency was not clear, nor was it clear how to bootstrap babel > to generate the first package. See above node-babel is already in the archive. I have forwarded the whole conversation with Thorsten here. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881339#20
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