Control: tags -1 moreinfo We had a discussion about this bug today in #debian-ftp on IRC.
Source packages that don't build any binaries on release architectures will eventually get removed as cruft. (That would mean you'd need to go through the NEW queue for future uploads!) I don't believe there is currently a way to override this mechanism. I have looked thoroughly and there don't appear to be any current examples of source packages in the Debian archives that don't build at least one binary on a release architecture (in the case of the src:hurd package, it builds an Architecture: all package). Note that the similar package xserver-xorg-input-mouse is still built on nearly every architecture. My recommendation is to build the binary package on at least one release architecture, perhaps i386 or amd64. Also, you may want to file an RC bug. Ports are not included in Testing so this would keep the package out of Testing and future Stable releases. Another option is to publish these source & binary packages only to the unreleased suite. I'm setting the moreinfo tag because I assume we don't want ftpmaster action on this request. I think the cruft autoremoval means that no bug is actually needed for these binary packages to be removed. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
