On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Russell Coker wrote: > I just downloaded the source to Wordpress from Squeeze, it's got a 14M > .debian.tar.xz which is mostly sources for things that are included in the > upstream tarball. The build process appears to only use the upstream tarball > code so the 13MB of data in the debian/missing-sources directory isn't used > for building.
Seems like a bug, the best way to determine that sources are still buildable is to always build them. > It is a really good thing to have upstream sources available as dictated by > the GPL (well done to whoever did that). But that availability doesn't > require that they be in the source package. > > Would it be possible to have somewhere on the Debian servers for storing such > files so that they can be referenced in a README file or something rather than > sent to everyone? I'm sure that most people who build a Wordpress package > won't use them. If I downloaded a source package and didn't get source I would be most unimpressed. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6EuzQTKMRM2GTwRp6kJRUebsD+B7ObE-aaOo8f_=tr...@mail.gmail.com