Bug#27906: PROPOSED] Binary-only NMU's
Roman Hodek writes ("Bug#27906: PROPOSED] Binary-only NMU's"):
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> If you want to fix this by keeping several source versions available,
> dinstall would have to check first all binary-* directories which
> source versions are still needed on any installation...
That's right. This could be done occasionally out of cron, though.
There's no harm in extra old source packages hanging around for a bit.
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> Can't we redefine the way we distribute the source code? Instead of
> "only on the FTP site" to "most times on the FTP site, plus in rare
> cases additionally a patch in the BTS".
No, I don't think so. The FTP site and the BTS are definitely not the
`same place' according to the GPL. For this to be true we'd have to
make sure they were always on the same computer, and we'd have to
insist that anyone mirroring the FTP site mirrored the BTS (or they'd
be violating the GPL).
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> Current policy is to ask the maintainer first and wait some time with
> the NMU, except if it's really urgent (security stuff or so). But this
> is often too long, which is one reason why we make bin-only NMUs.
Perhaps we should relax this policy, then.
Ian.
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