On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:53:31AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 04:51PM -05, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > > 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. You're welcome :-) Done! https://salsa.debian.org/sten-guest/policy/merge_requests/2 Cheers, Nicholas
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