On 30/03/24 10:05, Simon Josefsson wrote:
Antonio Russo <aeru...@aerusso.net> writes:
1. Move towards allowing, and then favoring, git-tags over source tarballs
Some people have suggested this before -- and I have considered adopting
that approach myself, but one thing that is often overlooked is that
building from git usually increase the Build-Depends quite a lot
compared to building from tarball, and that will more likely trigger
cyclic dependencies. People that do bootstrapping for new platforms or
cross-platform dislike such added dependency.
Most of the time such added dependencies could be worked around with
build profiles and cross building. More widespread support for <nodoc>,
<nocheck> and Multi-Arch annotations can greatly reduce the number of
deps needed to bootstrap an architecture.
Just as an example, bootstrapping coreutils currently requires
bootstrapping at least 68 other packages, including libx11-6 [1]. If
coreutils supported <nodoc> [2], the transitive closure of its
Build-Depends would be reduced to 20 packages, most of which in
build-essential.
[1]
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=coreutils&arch=amd64&ver=9.4-3.1&stamp=1710441056&raw=1
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/1057136
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
