Control: tag -1 - moreinfo > Does/did the contents of the archive in mono-source differ substantially > from the source pakage mono in Debian? Or to put it another way, why would > a user install mono-source instead of just doing `apt source mono`? It should not differ in any significant way, and there was no reason for users to install it. It was supposed to be used as a build-dependency by another package, but this other package never spawned into existence. > I ask because removal from stable will not remove the package from user > systems, and it then be out of date if mono is updated in future. I'm just > wondering if we can handle that any better. Do you think I should tweak some other package built from src:mono to force the removal of mono-source on upgrade? Or maybe turn it into an empty dummy package with a description explaining how to get the source through `apt source mono`? I could do that, but I think it would be a bit overkill here. I don’t think anyone ever installed mono-source but by mistake.
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