Changes to build-dependency handling in Ubuntu xenial beyond

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 08/04/16 17:39, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Thanks to some stellar work by Dimitri Ledkov and Colin Watson, and as
> discussed on ubuntu-devel over the past couple of months[1,2], a change has
> been landed to Launchpad and the archive reports[3] to allow packages in
> main to build-depend on universe (and packages in restricted to build-depend
> on either universe or multiverse).
>
> As a result, the archive admins will be moving a large number of packages
> from main to universe over the next few days in preparation for the 16.04
> release.

Just to say thank you to the folks who made this possible, it's a great
simplification for us in determining the natural boundaries of main!

Mark

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