Sam Liddicott sam at liddicott.com
Wed Oct 26 05:35:21 CDT 2005


First, I thank those responsible for their work in making backports 
available.

I am one of the complainers that make this a sometimes thankless task.

In the past I have asked about deb-src to backports and been informed 
that they are actually breezy sources. I think this is not always the 
case, as FreeNX is available for breezy only on breezy backports 
(thankyou), and no source.

Please could I respectfully suggest that backports src-deb are always 
made available as a src-deb url in the same repository as the backports.

I think it shows important respect for the GPL and Ubuntu users to 
permit users to  rebuild the same deb's as they download.

It also gives confidence that what has been downloaded is build in a 
standard way and not by forgettable manual freakery of the source tree 
that debian building permits.

[Redhat rpm building does not permit such mid-build manual source-tree 
freakery and I sometimes wonder if this is why src.rpm's are generally 
more available than src-debs.]

Sam



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