On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:52:33PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:41:02PM +0000, John O Sullivan wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've noticed something that seems odd to me. > > On ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source > > theres a bunch of files (.dsc .diff .orig etc) appearing in this > > directory. > > Is this the correct behaviour? Is this related to the switch to > > package pools? > > I'm curious because the same thing isn't happening for the various > > binary-* directories and I've seen no explanation for it anywhere. > > This is what you should expect to find in a Debian source directory. > These files are used to build packages. See 'man dpkg-source'.
Yes, but what are they doing in the root of main/source, rather than in a subdirectory? ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian has the same, so it's probably not a mirror thing. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>