Hello, On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 04:51PM -05, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > The full sentence in question is "This field should not be added > solely for purposes other than satisfying license or DFSG requirements > to provide full source code". > > "solely for purposes other than satisfying" is the problematic > construction and should be rephrased for readability and clarity. > > I suggest replacing the whole sentence with "The purpose of this field > is exclusively for cases where a package's license, or when DFSG > requirements, necessitate its presence; Built-Using should not be used > for any other purpose". This is much more clear and it flows > nicely into the next sentence "In particular, it should not be added > solely to enable finding packages that should be rebuilt against newer > versions of their build dependencies." Thank you for this. I agree that the sentence is unnecessarily hard to read. Perhaps you could propose a patch against policy.git. -- Sean Whitton
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