On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:10:42AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:26:56 +0200 Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > > built-using-field-on-arch-all-package already exists, > > but it has two problems: > > > > 1. It is only info, not error. > > What's the problem with arch:all using Build-Using? >... > (Yes, you can't binNMU the package to bump the B-U in order to kick old > source packages from the archive that are solely kept to satisfy B-U).
The release team binNMUs a 4 digit number of packages before a release (and sometimes between releases in unstable) to get Extra-Source-Only ideally down to 0. Extra-Source-Only means we might even have our mirrors serve sources of packages that were removed years ago due to "not distributable". > Andreas cu Adrian
