Code review comment for ~xnox/germinate/+git/builtusing2:master

ok. This makes more sense.

On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 17:09, Adam Conrad <adconrad@0c3.net> wrote:
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> > - if built-using binaries, are in build-deps
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> Built-Using contains sources, not binaries. We don't require build-deps to be in main, and I don't see why binaries of Built-Using should be any more special. We should be concerned with promoting sources here, not binaries.
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> ie: If I build foo-main against libbaruniverse-static, Canonical is committing to support the baruniverse SOURCE that produced libbaruniverse (to make sure we get it updates with security fixes, etc), and we have to ship it alongside foo for GPL compliance reasons, but that doesn't mean we're saying we support users installing the binary package libuniverse-static.
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> Trying to guess at binaries seems like a pointless exercise, really, and it's entirely possible to promote a source but none of its binaries.
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> https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/germinate/+git/builtusing2/+merge/308743
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Regards,

Dimitri.