Date: Tue, 5 Sep 95 21:33 BST
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
Most Debian packages don't modify any of the source code of the
originals; where they do they do so to fix bugs and other problems.
^
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That's it there --> <-- right there; *that's* the part that gives me the
willies. (I hope my diagram was not too complicated. :-)
[...]
I have spoken to many people about Debian, and the fact that I could
say that we make available the actual source code used by the
maintainers to build the packages in an immediately useable form has
been a very powerful argument.
That is not at issue. No one is proposing that we not provide the source.
[...]
I am strongly opposed to changing this policy.
Yeah, but why? Is no hill of beans sacred?
[...more non-issues elided...]
Matt Birkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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