Hi currently our archive has the feature(?) that a source package in component a (like main) can build a binary package in component b (like contrib).[1] Now, this feature is blocking (or making it way harder) to do some database re-designs we want to do for the central archive database, so we looked if there are real users of it. Well, yes, there are (damnit :) ): In unstable we have Christian Holm Christensen <cholm@nbi.dk> root-system Debian ALSA Maintainers <pkg-alsa-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> alsa-tools Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> gnome-speech (U) Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org> kdeaccessibility Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> gnuradio Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@debian.org> avifile Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org> gnome-speech Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez <ana@debian.org> kdeaccessibility (U) Mikael Magnusson <mikma@users.sourceforge.net> alsa-tools (U) Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> alsa-tools (U) Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> alsa-tools (U) Kevin M. Rosenberg <kmr@debian.org> cl-sql Victor Seva <linuxmaniac@torreviejawireless.org> linux-wlan-ng Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge@debian.org> linux-wlan-ng (U) Sune Vuorela <debian@pusling.com> kdeaccessibility (U) In testing we have avifile gnome-speech alsa-tools linux-wlan-ng cl-sql kdeaccessibility root-system, in stable avifile linux-uvc alsa-tools linux-wlan-ng cl-sql kdeaccessibility gnuradio latex-hangul-ucs, and, just for amusement, oldstable had dvipdfm-cjk bluez-utils openoffice.org-dictionaries cl-sql synopsis. Now, the idea would be to deprecate this feature, used by 8 packages in unstable, dropping complications in the database backend and the pool layout which we would want to avoid. Yes, it would require those packages to have a new (additional, maybe stripped to be smaller) source tarball for the one package in the other component. Well. 8 of them. A very tiny set compared to the whole archive, and the question is there if that really means we have to keep it. But before we take a final decision I want to hear more input on it. So here are your 5 seconds, please give input. :) [1] this would also work with non-free. And by policy the source has to be in the more-free component. -- bye, Joerg [...] when an Idea and a developer get laid, code awakes to the world, then a Debian package is made and pulled in the unstable distribution[...]
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