Bug#641153: document Built-Using field for binary packages
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> here is a proposed patch that uses a slimed version of the paragraphs
> proposed by Russ (quoted below) and keeps the original examples. It
> documents the field as new section, number 7.8, the last one of its
> chapter, because it introduces a new type of relationship, from binary
> package to source package. This said, I agree with Russ that a
> binary/binary relationship may be preferrable. For instance, it might
> avoid rare corner cases when depending on a source package that was
> binNMUed. This patch also lists Built-Using together with binary
> relationship packages in the paragraph explaining how architecture
> restrictions in source control files are used to produce binary control
> files.
The dpkg-query changes I think make it safe to use source dependencies.
This patch looks good to me; seconded.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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