Re: GCC and Built-Using
Am 04.01.2013 14:54, schrieb Ansgar Burchardt:
> Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> writes:
>> I won't change this. Please feel free to open a bug against debian-policy and
>> subscribe me. The current wording of 7.8 in the footnote 56 suggests that the
>> exact binary version is recorded, which is not needed for the gnat-*, gcj-*
>> builds, and seems to be over engineered.
>
> Built-Using records source versions used, not binary versions. It needs
> to be an exact version to tell dak which version of the referenced
> source package it should keep. (And that's the only use of this field,
> it does not affect installations or anything else.)
but it's not relevant which version is used. The only thing used is the upstream
tarball, which doesn't change.
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