status of ccache and libhiredis in main

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 at 03:19, Lukas Märdian <lukas.maerdian at canonical.com>
wrote:

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> On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 7:38 PM Jeremy Bicha <jeremy at bicha.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>
You're right but it seems a bit unlikely that a package would build-depend
on ccache. It's not very useful in the buildd environment...


> 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.
>

That said, I agree too. The seed change got merged a few hours ago and
presumably ccache will get moved to universe by an AA pretty soon.

Cheers,
mwh
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