Re: big .debian.tar.xz - EG Wordpress
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
> I just downloaded the source to Wordpress from Squeeze, it's got a 14M
> .debian.tar.xz which is mostly sources for things that are included in the
> upstream tarball. The build process appears to only use the upstream tarball
> code so the 13MB of data in the debian/missing-sources directory isn't used
> for building.
Seems like a bug, the best way to determine that sources are still
buildable is to always build them.
> It is a really good thing to have upstream sources available as dictated by
> the GPL (well done to whoever did that). But that availability doesn't
> require that they be in the source package.
>
> Would it be possible to have somewhere on the Debian servers for storing such
> files so that they can be referenced in a README file or something rather than
> sent to everyone? I'm sure that most people who build a Wordpress package
> won't use them.
If I downloaded a source package and didn't get source I would be most
unimpressed.
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bye,
pabs
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