I know this is not the most satisfying solution, especially as some of you worked on finding ways to improve the reproducibility of the mono-source package, but my plan is simply to drop it.
It does not have a popcon entry (I guess it means it has never been installed on a system with popcon reports enabled), nothing depends on it, nothing build-depends on it. And as a maintainer and user of Mono, I have no use for this package at all. It had initially been included following #785308, so it could be used as a base to build a wine-mono package, but I see no such wine-mono package in either Debian nor Ubuntu. Since the request for mono-source had been posted 10 years ago, I assume that the plans for a wine-mono package have been discontinued. The removal has already been pushed to Salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/dotnet-team/mono/-/commit/d00f3529e I’m not going to do a release including only this change, but this is going to be part of the next update of src:mono. If this package is reintroduced at some point, I’ll work with the Reproducible Builds team to ensure we get it right from the start this time.
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