On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 7:38 PM Jeremy Bicha <jeremy@bicha.net> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 10:22 PM Michael Hudson-Doyle
<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.
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
