On Sat, 2023-08-05 at 17:29 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Devref §6.8.8.2 also says that "it is common for Debian users who > need to build software for non-Debian platforms to fetch the source > from a Debian mirror rather than trying to locate a canonical upstream > distribution point", but I'm not convinced that's true any more. Our > volunteers' time is our most limited resource, so if we can use that > time more efficiently by no longer catering to possibly-hypothetical > users who are building our source code on non-Debian platforms, then > that might be a worthwhile tradeoff.
For Guix and nixOS at least there are several references to the Debian mirrors, so at least some distros rely on us for their source tarballs. I expect that other source based distros do this too. Personally, if I were to use a non-Debian platform, I would much prefer getting tarballs from Debian, since they will be DFSG-checked at least, which I would still want when dealing with non-Debian platforms. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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