Bug#870640: devscripts: Make source package bootstrappable

[Daniel Schepler]

Source: devscripts
Version: 2.17.9
Severity: wishlist

On my current attempt to bootstrap Debian, I'm currently stuck on
devscripts' build dependencies on libgit-wrapper-perl,
mozilla-devscripts, and pylint because of cycles such as:

devscripts Build-Depends on libgit-wrapper-perl
libgit-wrapper-perl Depends on git
git Build-Depends on cvs
cvs Build-Depends on ghostscript
ghostscript Build-Depends on libijs-dev
ijs Build-Depends on devscripts

It would be nice if it would be possible to build with either a stage1
or nocheck build profile to have the syntax checks in the build
process disabled, so that the source package could be bootstrapped
with at least the three build dependencies mentioned above being
unavailable.
-- 
Daniel Schepler