"Jason Self" <[email protected]> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès asked: >> But, what does "source code" mean here? Does it mean the source that's >> made available using the distro tools, such as 'apt-get source'? > > That's my understanding of it.
OK. Again, I’d like to stress that Guix goes way further than this: any user can check the whole dependency chain, build scripts, and patches used to build a package. They can run build recipes locally, and assert that the binary they obtain matches the one distributed by hydra.gnu.org–as opposed to having to trust hydra.gnu.org. >> What kind of changes are these, typically? Are these changes to debian/ >> files (such as adding new patches), or are these changes outside of the >> debian/ directory? > > They run the gamut: [...] Yes, I understand this, but my question was more about how this occurs technically. My understanding is that Debian-based distros provide the unmodified upstream source, with a debian/patches tree containing patches they apply. Do I get it right? Thanks! Ludo’.
