Re: Hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} removal

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2019-04-14 at 10:29 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le dim. 14 avril 2019 10:23:42 +0200, a ecrit:
> > One problem with debian-ports is that the sources, most interesting
> > the
> > *.debian.tar.* files. You cannot any longer add deb-src to the
> > sources.list and apt-get source <package>; dpkg-buildpackage ...
> > 
> > As I understand it the sources have to be added to where the binary
> > package are e.g. 
> > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/g/gdb/
> >  and
> > the way to build from source is dget 
> > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/g/gdb/gdb_7.12-6.1+pie.dsc
> > etc.
> 
> For unstable/experimental packages, one can simply use the main
> archive deb-src line, debian-ports only needs to host the binaries.

I cannot follow your reasoning here, e.g. at  
http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/g/glibc/
there are no source packages, only binary ones. How would I ever get
hold of your source changes to build that version of glibc?