On 21/12/17 11:53, Philipp Hahn wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a tool myself to parse Debian's Packages and Sources > files to mirror all files belonging to one version for post-processing. > Today I stumbled over "glibc-2.24-11+deb9u2": > - it is *not* listed on > <https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=glibc&searchon=sourcenames&suite=all§ion=all> > - it is listed on <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/glibc> for s-p-u > - it is included in debian/dists/stretch/main/source/Sources.xz > - it is *not* included in debian/dists/stretch/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz > > Is it normal for Sources to list source packages, which are not yet in > Packages? (Probably yes, if there exists at least one architecture > containing binary packages build from that source version)
It's listed as Extra-Source-Only: yes So yes, it's normal for it to be there, as another package has Built-Using on that glibc version, so we need to ship the source. Cheers, Emilio
