<michael.hudson@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.
Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha
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