Re: policy clarification for source packages
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> The objectives of this approach would be:
> a) support users who are trying to do debugging or enhancement on
> their own;
> b) improve security by providing public identification of the source
> files;
> c) helps propagate improvements upstream by explicitly differentiating
> and identifying the Debian patches; and
> d) enable development of a BOGUS-like distribution.
>
> Any other approach leads, I think, to Debian's distribution of
> a package effectively becoming an independent source tree, which I
> had thought was an outcome to be avoided.
It should rather be just the other way around. The binary packages are
only secondary to the source packages, which must be able to compile in an
standard environment.
Once we have a PROPER source tree, we can simply compile the whole thing
and get all packages clean and compiled in one standard environment.
Mike
Michael Neuffer i-Connect.Net, a Division of iConnect Corp.
mike@i-Connect.Net Home of the Debian Master Server.
mike@debian.org 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 140
503.641.8774 Beaverton, OR 97005
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