Bug#714596: jenkins build-depends on itself: impossible to bootstrap

[Thomas Goirand]

Package: jenkins
Version: 1.480.3+dfsg-1~exp2
Severity: serious

Hi James,

I've been trying to build a Wheezy backport of Jenkins, and I almost
succeeded, until it went down to build Jenkins itself.

Jenkins Build-Depends: on libjenkins-plugin-parent-java, but this package
is in fact one of the binaries made by the jenkins source package.

The same way, jenkins-instance-identity and jenkins-ssh-cli-auth both
build-depends on libjenkins-plugin-parent-java, but jenkins build-depends
on jenkins-instance-identity and jenkins-ssh-cli-auth.

Because of the above, it is impossible to bootstrap Jenkins from scratch.

Thanks for maintaining this complicated software in Debian,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)