Control: tag -1 confirmed On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 02:25:38PM +0200, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote: > Control: tag -1 - moreinfo > > > Does/did the contents of the archive in mono-source differ substantially > > from the source pakage mono in Debian? Or to put it another way, why would > > a user install mono-source instead of just doing `apt source mono`? > > It should not differ in any significant way, and there was no reason for users > to install it. It was supposed to be used as a build-dependency by another > package, but this other package never spawned into existence. > > > I ask because removal from stable will not remove the package from user > > systems, and it then be out of date if mono is updated in future. I'm just > > wondering if we can handle that any better. > > Do you think I should tweak some other package built from src:mono to force > the > removal of mono-source on upgrade? Or maybe turn it into an empty dummy > package > with a description explaining how to get the source through `apt source mono`? > > I could do that, but I think it would be a bit overkill here. I don’t think > anyone ever installed mono-source but by mistake.
Agreed, please go ahead with your original proposal. Thanks, -- Jonathan Wiltshire [email protected] Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 ed25519/0x196418AAEB74C8A1: CA619D65A72A7BADFC96D280196418AAEB74C8A1
