Re: Debian breaking GPL (Was: Re: Bug#32758: userv: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs)
Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:
> 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.
How does it work? Does it incoporate incremental diffs? It would be
real nice if one could upload just the diff that fixes a bug for arch
foo and specify that that is an arch foo only patch. For stuff like
arch fixes of frozen packages, where one doesn't want to break other
archs. dpkg-source -x would apply all patches in order and omit
patches that are not ment for the current arch.
> > 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.
Well, I heard something. :) And don't worry, even without I would have
filed all missing sources as a single bug, otherwise that would be
hunderts of bugs. But now I know that someone is working on it, so I
don't have to enhance my mirror script to send bugreports. :)
> Richard Braakman
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
PS: Doesn't anybody have enough space to keep all old sources in a cvs
like (but more compress) manner? Probably not.
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