Hi,
On Thu, 2021-09-09 at 17:39 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> In the form of a table, the allowed source/binary combinations are:
>
> | binary |
> | main contrib non-free |
> -----------------|-------------------------|
> main | yes yes - |
> source contrib | - yes - |
> non-free | - - yes |
>
> ftp team: is this correct?
Yes. But source packages in main must also produce at least one binary
package in main[1].
[1]: Probably with the default build profile if we care about corner
cases.
I personally would prefer if we would avoid using this feature too much
if possible. It is simpler to understand when archive areas are self-
contained (IMHO). Outside Debian archive areas are used differently,
e.g., for different "branches" or similar; sources building binary
packages across multiple archive areas also find strange corner cases
now and then that are not handled correctly.
Ansgar
