Bootstrapping libav on a new architecture

[Thorsten Glaser]

Fabian Greffrath dixit:

> Am 19.06.2012 12:35, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
>> What would be even better is to add a hint to control file which exact
>> packages can be skipped to generate a crippled-but-usable-for-rebuild
>> package.  I forgot what that hint is called or its syntax (even if I was
>> at the meeting in Cambridge when its name was decided): Try ask at
>> emdebian or search the wiki for it.
>
> This would be "Build-Depends-Bootstrap1".

Ah, we’re really getting things like that? Nice!
(Though I’d still have to prod cowbuilder into DWIW, but that makes things
so much easier, as the figure-out-how-t-f-this-package-is-built phase can
be skipped…)

> In the case of libav I think it could be achieved to only contain debhelper, as
> soon as all --enable-... flags have been changed to use the cond_enable() macro
> in debian/confflags.

Great, so a bootstrap libav should be decently easy.

[…]
> I have already done this in GIT, plus some tidy-up work.

Thanks a lot!

bye,
//mirabilos
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