status of ccache and libhiredis in main

[Lukas Märdian]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 7:38 PM Jeremy Bicha <jeremy at bicha.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 10:22 PM Michael Hudson-Doyle
> <michael.hudson at 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. 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.

Regards,
    Lukas

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionProcess
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