Strawman: merge main and universe

[Reinhard Tartler]

Scott James Remnant <scott at ubuntu.com> writes:

> We move all packages from universe into main, and remove the universe
> component.  Likewise packages from multiverse are moved into restricted,
> and multiverse removed.
>
> Instead, we define who provides what kind of support through meta-data.
>
> We have generated lists of packages already, the seeds.  In fact, it's
> these seeds that (by a manual process) result in packages being divided
> between main and universe right now.

At the moment, packages in main cannot (build-)depend on packages in
universe. This is technically easy to implement with apt. What
consequences would your proposal have with respect to this constraint?

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