Comment 5 for bug 31098

Color me dense, but if the only way to build it is with the current version, how does one ever bootstrap the initial binary? Could this "complex manual process" not be represented in debian/rules for a full bootstrap (without a self-referential build-dep) on every upload, much like the GCC suite tends to do?

If I'm going to have to do manual builds on every new upstream release, I'm more likely to just request that we remove this package from the archive entirely, as this is just infeasible.