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Paul Wise  
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 More options May 16 2012, 6:00 am
Newsgroups: linux.debian.devel
From: Paul Wise <p...@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:01 +0200
Local: Wed, May 16 2012 6:00 am
Subject: Re: big .debian.tar.xz - EG Wordpress
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On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
> I just downloaded the source to Wordpress from Squeeze, it's got a 14M
> .debian.tar.xz which is mostly sources for things that are included in the
> upstream tarball.  The build process appears to only use the upstream tarball
> code so the 13MB of data in the debian/missing-sources directory isn't used
> for building.

Seems like a bug, the best way to determine that sources are still
buildable is to always build them.

> It is a really good thing to have upstream sources available as dictated by
> the GPL (well done to whoever did that).  But that availability doesn't
> require that they be in the source package.

> Would it be possible to have somewhere on the Debian servers for storing such
> files so that they can be referenced in a README file or something rather than
> sent to everyone?  I'm sure that most people who build a Wordpress package
> won't use them.

If I downloaded a source package and didn't get source I would be most
unimpressed.

--
bye,
pabs

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