Bug#992113: release-notes: Initial availability of Bazel build system in Debian
On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:28:12 -0400 Olek Wojnar <olek@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!
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