On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 12:30:52AM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > Other packages are even more duplicated than gettext, this is the top 6 > > of duplicated source packages in unstable: > > > > 12 glibc > > 11 golang > > 10 gcc-4.9 > > 8 linux > > 5 iceweasel > > 5 gcc-5 > > All of them, including gettext/0.19.3-2 in experimental have a > Extra-Source-Only: yes > field. > > This means that some package declares a Built-Using relentionship with > it, so that source must be keep around in the archive to comply with > GPL, etc...
Ok, didn't know about this, but there is only one package in unstable having a Built-Using: gettext. How is it that there are four different gettext versions in unstable? (I'll ask Axel Beckert anyway). Thanks.