Re: Bug#657212: include extra sources in Sources
Hi,
Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:01:33PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> I would like to include sources in extra_src_references in the Sources
>> index or an extra file.
>>
>> This would allow to retrieve sources only referenced via Built-Using to
>> be retrieved via apt-get should one have interest in them. It also
>> allows debmirror and similar tools to grab the entire source for a
>> release (including source packages only referenced via Built-Using).
>
> How would one distinguish them? wanna-build might in some circumstances try to
> build them because they're obviously missing their binaries. (It should not
> happen if there's a newer source version available, but it could happen for
> instance with source package (and binary packages) renames.)
The last idea was to use the Priority field for this as it is not really
used for Sources right now (most source packages have Priority: source).
The extra sources would have Priority: extra while the "regular" source
packages would be Priority: optional.
Note that we cannot guarantee anything about version numbers: a source
introduced by Built-Using might be older or newer than the regular
source package; or it might introduce packages that would otherwise not
be in the given suite.
Ansgar
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