On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 08:55:22PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: > Sorry, I missed most of this. I get a lot of binary only NMU's > from Paul and Roman with an accompanying diff that also goes in the BTS. > I just want to register my vote for allowing this. > It is an unstable distribution-- this is meant to be a temporary > situation; putting the patch on the BTS I think easily qualifies as making > the source available. Consider also, that even without the diff, a > package is far easier to build than a typical DFSG compliant piece of > software that I download from sunsite. DFSG does not say, 'must build > with a single command on every platform' . Finally, it makes life much > easier for both of the developers involved.
I also have received patches this way from Paul and have no objection to this method. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
