On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:08:54AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 07:42:01PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > 1) is easier for the developer who want to contribute to find the > > > tarball there and avoid looking around the web to find it > > > 2) can be useful for repacking old version of packages when old upstream > > > tarballs have been removed from the web > > Isn't the debian/copyright there for pointing at the upstream > > tarball? > > Yes, but in almost all packages I've worked on that field is usually > left untouched since the first version of the debian package. Moreover > this address onlyl point (1) above, not (2). > > But, I can't understand your point: is it a problem to keep tarballs > there? They need not so much space and they are not going to be included > in the debian package, so what's the matter?
Is it not better to store them unpacked, so you will only store the first one + the changes to next version, with proper version tags that is. Friendly, Sven Luther
