[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#738319: Bug#738319: Bug#738319: Bug#738319: systemd: Patch to bootstrap without gobject-introspection or cryptsetup

[Daniel Schepler]

On Monday, February 10, 2014 01:27:18 PM Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 09.02.2014 18:49, schrieb Daniel Schepler:
> > But since that new syntax is not backwards compatible with stable's dpkg
> > and apt, we won't be able to actually upload packages using that syntax
> > until at least after jessie's release.  So in the meantime, I'm
> > submitting patches with just the debian/rules changes, leaving out the
> > debian/control changes.
> Thanks for your reply, Daniel.
> 
> So from what I understand, the patch is incomplete and not really
> sufficient to enable bootstrapping. Is that correct?
> 
> If so, I'd like to keep this bug open until jessie is released and we
> merge a complete patch then.
> 
> Or is there any benefit in merging an incomplete patch which simply
> contains the debian/rules bits?

Well, it's still very useful to porters (and other bootstrappers) in allowing 
to bootstrap using just a simple command rather than needing to hand-edit 
debian/rules with the needed changes.

Although, we're currently discussing a patch to debhelper which would allow us 
to put things like "Build-Profiles: !stage1" in debian/control binary package 
stanzas instead of the conditional -Nfoo -Nbar we're using now.  So it might 
make sense to hold off a little while and wait for that to be available, to 
make a somewhat cleaner bootstrapping patch possible.
-- 
Daniel Schepler