Bug#129629: Not really distributing sources
Adam Conrad wrote:
> And the Debian project makes sources available via apt. What they
> haven't done in the past (and it looks like you might win on this one
> anyway, as much as I think it's a bad idea) is force people in
> pay-per-bit dialup connections to download Sources.gz for every
> distribution section every time they run "apt-get update"... People can
> figure this out on their own. If it were set up like that by default,
> I'd be betting Jason would get TONNES of bug reports from European users
> to the effect of "stop wasting my bandwidth with your crazy default
> configuration!"...
No, as has been said if you'd bother to read the full thread before
ranting, that is the default for debian installs done with base-config,
and nobody has complained. It's been like this since potato or earlier.
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