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Bug#1029633: lintian should give an error for binary-all binary packages containing Built-Using



On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:10:42AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:26:56 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> wrote:
> > built-using-field-on-arch-all-package already exists,
> > but it has two problems:
> > 
> > 1. It is only info, not error.
> 
> What's the problem with arch:all using Build-Using?
>...
> (Yes, you can't binNMU the package to bump the B-U in order to kick old
> source packages from the archive that are solely kept to satisfy B-U).

The release team binNMUs a 4 digit number of packages before a release
(and sometimes between releases in unstable) to get Extra-Source-Only 
ideally down to 0.

Extra-Source-Only means we might even have our mirrors serve sources 
of packages that were removed years ago due to "not distributable".

> Andreas

cu
Adrian


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