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Re: should I orphan linux-wlan-ng?



On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:

> Eduard's complaint that a user who buys a binary-only CD set will be
> stuck without sources for linux-wlan-ng and other packages that don't
> have -source packages is legitimate.  It's hard to claim that the users
> should expect to find system sources on their CDs, though, if they
> bought binary-only CD sets.

The better solution is to tag such source packages as special, and include
them in a special area on a binary cd.

This tagging and including mechanism could be done in d-i, and may not require
intervention from ftpmaster.




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