... "richard" == Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bruce> The location of the source, richard> What does this gain? People ask in newsgroups, where to get the program xxx; I want to check -- before reporting a bug -- whether there is a newer version of program xxx... richard> What if a package is a combination of several `upstream' packages, richard> each with its own set of authors? BOGUS has: FTP1: sunsite:/dir/subdir TARFILE1: package-1.23.tar.gz FTP2: sunsite:/dir/subdir TARFILE2: package-2.34.tar.gz FTP3: sunsite:/dir/subdir PATCHFILE: file richard> What if the instructions for richard> getting it are more complex than just an ftp URL? Put the source together and store the created tar.gz on a FTP server. richard> therefore the current system not only seems to me to be richard> perfectly adequate but furthermore has desirable side effects. I don't like such side effects. Karl
