On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:28:12 -0400 Olek Wojnar <o...@debian.org> wrote:
> If possible, please include the following in section 2.2 (What's new in the > distribution?) of the release notes for the following architectures: > amd64, arm64, ppc64el, s390x, ppc64, riscv64 Is this perhaps an old bug that should be closed - bullseye seems to have a bazel-bootstrap package, so not sure there is anything needed for bookworm? > 2.2.x Initial availability of the Bazel build system > The [Bazel](https://bazel.build/) build system is available in Debian > starting with this release. This is a bootstrap variant that will not include > local versions of the extended Bazel ecosystem. However, the current package > **does** provide identical functionality to core upstream Bazel, with the > advantage of convenient Debian package management for the installation. While > building Debian packages is not currently recommended, any software that > supports Bazel builds should build normally using this Debian-native Bazel > package. This includes build-time downloads of required dependencies. > > The [Debian Bazel Team](https://salsa.debian.org/bazel-team/meta) is working > to package an extensible version of Bazel for future Debian releases. This > extensible version will allow additional components of the Bazel ecosystem to > be included as native Debian packages. More importantly, this version will > allow Debian packages to be built using Bazel. Contributions to the team are > welcome!
