Re: Debian breaking GPL (Was: Re: Bug#32758: userv: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs)

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

Brederlow wrote:
> Now my main concern:
> Many Binaries on ftp.debian.org don't have source codes to go along
> with it, although they are gpl. Every time a new source is uploaded,
> the old source is deleted. Since most uploads are for one arch only,
> all other archs will still have the old binaries, but now without
> source.

This has been discussed before.  In fact, I brought it up myself about
a year ago.  I'm working on a solution, one that simply ignores the
modified-.orig.tar.gz problem.  The main script for it is finished,
but other scripts will have to be modified to cope with multiple
source versions in one distribution.

> If I don't hear anything, I will consider all binaries without source
> as bugs of ftp.debian.org and will file bugs stating that source/patch
> <xyz> is missing from archive.

Don't you dare.

Richard Braakman