Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Erast Benson wrote:
> > The source and binaries *must* match, period. You can't have tarballs
> > being
> > constantly upgraded, and the binaries not, or vice versa. The
> > source+binary
> > must be done as a whole unit.
> >
> > Also, with this email, I am making a formal request: I am the original
> > author
> > of DBS, the most widely used patch system available in debian. This
> > system
> > tends to want to be embedded inside each and every package that makes use
> > of
> > it(altho, this is not always the case nowadays, with dbs.deb and cdbs). I
> > therefor make an official request that you remove all distributition of
> > all
> > such dbs-derived packages until such time as this mismatch is fixed.
>
> all latest source code corresponds to latest binaries. so, there is no
> "mismatch".
It is if they are updated with different frequencies.
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