Hi, On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:01:39AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Joey Hess wrote: > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > 7.8 > > > New `Built-Using' field, which must be used to document the > > > source packages for any binaries that are incorporated into this > > > package at build time. This is used to ensure that the archive > > > meets license requirements for providing source for all > > > binaries. > > > > It seems that this was intended to apply to standalone binaries embedded > > into things like d-i initrds (which already use it), but as it's written > > it seems to apply to static linking of libraries as well. > > This sort of sounds like Built-Using: only needs to contain things > which the package doesn't already Depends: (or perhaps even > Recommends:) on.
He didn't deny that, but if you have static libs or header-only "libraries" you don't have a Depends/Recommends: on the lib. Regards, Rene -- 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/20120919172427.gb3...@rene-engelhard.de
