Re: Debian vs. BOGUS
... "richard" == Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk> writes:
> Bruce> The location of the source,
richard> What does this gain?
People ask in newsgroups, where to get the program xxx; I want to check
-- before reporting a bug -- whether there is a newer version of program
xxx...
richard> What if a package is a combination of several `upstream' packages,
richard> each with its own set of authors?
BOGUS has:
FTP1: sunsite:/dir/subdir
TARFILE1: package-1.23.tar.gz
FTP2: sunsite:/dir/subdir
TARFILE2: package-2.34.tar.gz
FTP3: sunsite:/dir/subdir
PATCHFILE: file
richard> What if the instructions for
richard> getting it are more complex than just an ftp URL?
Put the source together and store the created tar.gz on a FTP server.
richard> therefore the current system not only seems to me to be
richard> perfectly adequate but furthermore has desirable side effects.
I don't like such side effects.
Karl
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