Re: including full package source code in the debian release

- Original Message - From: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010 12:57 am Subject: Re: including full package source code in the debian release To: Jamie Morken jmor...@shaw.ca Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org   There are two little flaws in your reasoning

including full package source code in the debian release

Hi, Debian releases have 25,000 or so packages and don't include the source to them, so to recompile the package you use apt-get to connect to the internet and download the source to one package at a time if you want the source code.  I did some calculations to see how much bulk adding the