On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 at 03:19, Lukas Märdian <lukas.maerd...@canonical.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 7:38 PM Jeremy Bicha <jer...@bicha.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 10:22 PM Michael Hudson-Doyle >> <michael.hud...@canonical.com> wrote: >> > It turns out that ccache has been in main essentially forever, since >> 2004 and there is no formal record of the motivations for including it in >> main. However it was and is a useful tool for developers. >> >> Until about 5 or 6 years ago, Build-Depends for main packages had to >> be in main. Because that's no longer required, I think it's expected >> that most developers will have access to universe when building >> packages. > > You're right but it seems a bit unlikely that a package would build-depend on ccache. It's not very useful in the buildd environment... > My opinion is that it's not a problem to move ccache to >> universe. >> > > I agree! ccache should be demoted to universe, as it is not used by any > supported package or the official build process. > Ubuntu developers can still easily access it from "universe". If there is > a need to re-promote ccache into "main" in the future, it should go through > a full MIR process [0] instead of just being in "main" for legacy reasons. > That said, I agree too. The seed change got merged a few hours ago and presumably ccache will get moved to universe by an AA pretty soon. Cheers, mwh
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