Re: Bug#709382: mksh: broken Built-Using handling

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Russ Allbery dixit:

>At the time, though, the assumption was that Built-Using would be a fairly
>rare thing that would only be used for those few score packages that were
>Build-Depending on *-source packages.

And statically linked executables, since that made it into the
Policy wording; or possibly, dynamically linked ones that
incorporate static libraries from other packages… or Haskell…
I think there may be a can of worms or two.

I’ve read about the toolchain/-source issues, indeed, but I’m
wondering a bit whether a hypothetical statically linked
executable from only BSD-licenced sources would need Built-Using
(as per current Policy: yes, even though the licences don’t
mandate “complete” source availability like the GPL does).

Anyway, this probably won’t help us, so I won’t go on with
that direction of thought any more.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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