Brederlow wrote: > Now my main concern: > Many Binaries on ftp.debian.org don't have source codes to go along > with it, although they are gpl. Every time a new source is uploaded, > the old source is deleted. Since most uploads are for one arch only, > all other archs will still have the old binaries, but now without > source.
This has been discussed before. In fact, I brought it up myself about a year ago. I'm working on a solution, one that simply ignores the modified-.orig.tar.gz problem. The main script for it is finished, but other scripts will have to be modified to cope with multiple source versions in one distribution. > If I don't hear anything, I will consider all binaries without source > as bugs of ftp.debian.org and will file bugs stating that source/patch > <xyz> is missing from archive. Don't you dare. Richard Braakman

