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Annotate packages which are only referenced by built-using #110

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These packages are sometimes not found in the apt-cache, as they are from the past.
However, people seem to be surprised why we get the "imprecise lookup" warning on them.

For details, please also see https://lists.debian.org/debian-snapshot/2025/10/msg00004.html, mainly:

Source packages referenced in built_using only have name and version
information, but no checksum (and they often cannot be found in the apt
cache)

Yeah, that feels bad in the abstract. A lot of .buildinfo and built-using information (and the signature!) is only valid at the point in time of building/ingestion.

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