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Re: Debian Policy 3.9.4.0 released



On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Joey Hess wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
> >      7.8
> >           New `Built-Using' field, which must be used to document the
> >           source packages for any binaries that are incorporated into this
> >           package at build time.  This is used to ensure that the archive
> >           meets license requirements for providing source for all binaries.
> 
> It seems that this was intended to apply to standalone binaries embedded
> into things like d-i initrds (which already use it), but as it's written
> it seems to apply to static linking of libraries as well.

This sort of sounds like Built-Using: only needs to contain things
which the package doesn't already Depends: (or perhaps even
Recommends:) on. [Which would resolve the archive licensing
requirements.]


Don Armstrong

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 -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p122

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