Re: Intent to package pine-src

To: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
Cc: Debian Developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Intent to package pine-src
From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:31:20 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 19980430143120.B12628@test.legislate.com>
Mail-followup-to: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>, Debian Developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980430133615.412G-100000@dwarf.polaris.net>; from Dale Scheetz on Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 01:57:28PM -0400
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980430164504.662A-100000@cantor.unex.es> <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980430133615.412G-100000@dwarf.polaris.net>

Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> wrote:
> I agree with Ian. The .deb file format is expressly for the distribution
> of configured executables (binaries for short). Using this format for
> source distribution is simply asking for trouble.

Um... so does this mean we have to retract the kernel-source packages?

Also, note that a variety of other packages include source, examples
include: samba, ipx, modutils, netcat, xephem, ncurses3.4, mgetty,
freetype1, cgilib.

-- 
Raul

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