On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 07:42:01PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > 1) is easier for the developer who want to contribute to find the
> > tarball there and avoid looking around the web to find it
> > 2) can be useful for repacking old version of packages when old upstream
> > tarballs have been removed from the web
> Isn't the debian/copyright there for pointing at the upstream
> tarball?
Yes, but in almost all packages I've worked on that field is usually
left untouched since the first version of the debian package. Moreover
this address onlyl point (1) above, not (2).
But, I can't understand your point: is it a problem to keep tarballs
there? They need not so much space and they are not going to be included
in the debian package, so what's the matter?
Cheers.
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Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy
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