Re: putting boot-floppies source into deb package

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Eduard Bloch wrote:
> I just discovered that we distribute the source twice: the tarball as
> source package and almost the same tarball in the binary package. Does
> this make sense? People willing to work on BFs should be able to fetch
> the source package. IMO we should remove the tarball from the binary
> package and put a reference to the source package into README.Debian.

I've never understood why the boot-floppies did that. Maybe it made
sense for people who don't know how to use CVS, before apt-get source
was in wide use.

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