On 12/18/2012 05:09 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > Besides build failures (as suggested by Roland and Stuart), there is > also a talk about keeping old versions of the source package around for > license compliance. This is mostly related to packages "embedding" > (parts of) other packages during builds (I believe they would use the > Built-Using header to declare this).
We already do this. But only a few packages need it, for example debian-installer or gdb-mingw-w64. > To knowledge, dak does not expose these extra sources yet. However, I > believe it is the plan to eventually do so. dak currently only uses the Built-Using information to keep the additional source files in the pool directory, but I would like to also add them to the Sources index, see #657212. Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50d09db5.2070...@debian.org
