On 23.07.2013 12:09, Robie Basak wrote: > It is provided by software-properties-common in more recent releases, > and is seeded on server now. See bug 439566.
That is good to know. Given that my server installs are based on LTS releases I only checked the latest LTS. > All this is true, but you haven't said specifically why this proposal is > a problem, or why. This proposal *will* make source available without > having to manually install anything. And providing easy access to the > source *is* essential, but this proposal doesn't take easy access away. It adds an additional step to enable sources. Now, if the source repository would be automatically enabled when the user is requesting a source package, that would be better than giving an error and asking the user to enable it. > Others have said why the current situation is a problem, and > you haven't addressed that here at all, given that add-apt-repository > *is* available by default now. To be absolutely honest, I don't see the problem. The source index files for precise-updates and precise-security (the only pockets that are expected to change as far as I can tell) are all-together something like 1MB and have a low rate of change. Is downloading that small amount of data once a week really that much of a problem?
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