Re: Bug#709382: Built-Using, libgcc, and libc_nonshared
Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> writes:
> There’s something else about Built-Using:
> Are those source packages (that would not otherwise be kept in the
> archive) released along with “stable”, despite having no binary
> packages?
Yes, I believe that's how the implementation works.
> If not… well, since snapshot.d.o is an official service now, I’d say,
> point there for the “legal” side, and only require Built-Using to be
> used for the cases where it’s desireable to have this information
> present more explicitly, that is, the original toolchain and embedding
> stuff, possibly static linking and Haskell. Pragmatic but probably
> doable, and since quite some time, sbuild records (in the build log) the
> versions of the toolchain packages installed already anyway, so we just
> need to put build logs into the snapshots archive as well; I believe
> they’re deleted when an architecture moves off the main archive (to
> d-ports, or because it’s no longer even in oldstable) normally.
Hm, that's an interesting point, indeed.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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