Re: Package rejected due to missing source entry, (help)
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> It seems there is a common misunderstanding here about "source" and
> "binary". In general, "source" is what the programmer writes and
> "binary" is what it is installed and the machine finally reads.
>
> For a C program, everybody knows what the source and the binary are.
> For an interpreted program (for example, a shell script or a perl
> script) the source and the binary are in the same file. But this
> does not mean "the source does not exist". It certainly exists,
> because it is what you have to change when you want to modify the
> program.
Ah, that clears things up more than just a little. When I was
thinking of "source", i thought "sourcecode" and not "source of
origin".
> In practice: We (Debian) have always to distribute a source package
> as a .tar.gz (plus .dsc and often .diff.gz) that generates the .deb
> files, so the source package and the binary package may never be the
> same, even if the set of files they contain are almost identical.
Ok, thanks.
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