Re: source packages and censorship

To: Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>, Debian Developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: source packages and censorship
From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:08:22 -0400
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Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> deb, however, is not the appropriate format for a source distribution - and
> by distributing something in source form as .deb, you are spreading a small
> amount of confusion.

So this means we should stop distributing .el sources, and compiling
them in the postinst?

-- 
Raul


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