On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:18:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:45:08AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm > > quite attached to being able to peek inside source packages quickly by > > sshing over to the local mirror I keep at home which grabs everything > > overnight so that I don't have to wait for it to download; particularly > > so for large source packages. > > How is that better than running "apt-get source" against your local > mirror, though? > > Alternatively, is it really a problem to have your local mirror > autogenerate v1 source packages in the same way v1source.qa.d.o presumably > would?
Of course, one possibility is to go the opposite direction: having a v3 source repository, that will automatically create v1 (or even v2 packages) and upload them to the main archive. [...] > (It might be just me, but I'm getting the feeling that implementing > Wig&Pen via this v3 format is probably easier than implementing it via > the v2 format...) Could you please explain what the difference between "Wig&Pen" and v2 format is? I've seen them as identities so far. > I might be off my rocker, but I'm not seeing any reason why we couldn't > allow uploads of v3 format packages to experimental while blocking them > for unstable etc, presuming dpkg somewhere supported them. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
