Debian Source distributions (was Re: Intent to package pine-src)
--On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 1:57 pm -0400 "Dale Scheetz" <dwarf@polaris.net>
wrote:
> Keep source in Source Format and use the .deb files for what they were
> intended, the distribution of "binary" components.
I have little doubt you're right. I know none of the background.
But... I think it would be nice to be able to download the source packages
as well through the front-end (APT? Are you listening?). One of the things
that I prefer about the *BSD distributions is the way you have all the
source. In my NetBSD days, I never downloaded a binary - if you'd suggested
it, I would have thought that was a funny idea. That has now changed
(although I still miss 'make world' - BSD user-land took about 48 hours to
build on my 68030). On my debian box, it would be nice for me to be able to
say 'hmm.. there's a bug in ls.. that looks trivial to solve, I'll go have a
look at the source'.
In fact, some kind of automated re-uploading would be even froodier.
It goes like this...
hmm.. there's a bug in [commonly used utility].
Let's get the source [goes into apt, checks the 'also source' checkbox].
Ahh.. that's an easy one.
mymachine# submit-bug-fix
And the script runs a diff against .orig.tar.gz, and then allows me to enter
a bug into the debian bug-tracker, with automatically generated patch
included.
This kind of thing would hugely increase the number of bugs we get fixed, if
the system was this simple for people who are competent, but busy,
programmers...
Any thoughts?
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