Steve McIntyre writes ("Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources"): > Making images often requires tweaks to the build script at/near > release time. The archive continues to be a moving target until very > close to that time. More than once we've fixed things or added > workarounds in the image generation scripts *on release day*. I'm not > going to remove the ability to do that and make working images to > pander to your ideals here.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to arrange that we at least automatically distribute the source code to the image ? If you frequently need to edit the build script at the last moment, can the build script copy itself into its output ? It wouldn't have to be in the actual iso; it could live next to it on the mirrors. Forgive me if we already do that. Ian.