Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

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Subject: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive
From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:56:28 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:

> do you think that the attached patch would solve the problem ?

There are more reasons for using Built-Using than licenses, for example:

Rebuilding against updated versions of static libraries.
Rebuilding the debian-installer-*-netboot-* packages.

I don't think we should restrict usage of Built-Using to only
license-related reasons, there are also other reasons.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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