<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sam Liddicott</b> <<a href="mailto:sam@liddicott.com">sam@liddicott.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
First, I thank those responsible for their work in making backports<br>available.<br><br>I am one of the complainers that make this a sometimes thankless task.<br><br>In the past I have asked about deb-src to backports and been informed
<br>that they are actually breezy sources. I think this is not always the<br>case, as FreeNX is available for breezy only on breezy backports<br>(thankyou), and no source.</blockquote><div><br>
Sources are not always derived from Breezy sources -- FreeNX is derived
from <a href="http://Kanotix.com">Kanotix.com</a> or <a href="http://archive.kalyxo.org">archive.kalyxo.org</a> sources, whichever matches up
the version. In the future, we may actually be deriving from Seveas's
<a href="http://ubuntulinux.nl">ubuntulinux.nl</a> sources.<br>
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The reason we decided not to provide a source location is because for
99% of the time, it's a waste of space and a duplication of effort. On
our (privately donated) servers, the last thing we'd like to do is
waste space.<br>
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It's still legal by the GPL for me to provide sources by e-mail request, though it isn't always the most convenient.<br>
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Any time that we actually modify the sources in any way, a patch will be provided at <a href="http://ubuntubackports.org/ubp/sources/">http://ubuntubackports.org/ubp/sources/</a><br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Please could I respectfully suggest that backports src-deb are always<br>made available as a src-deb url in the same repository as the backports.
<br><br>I think it shows important respect for the GPL and Ubuntu users to<br>permit users to rebuild the same deb's as they download.<br><br>It also gives confidence that what has been downloaded is build in a<br>standard way and not by forgettable manual freakery of the source tree
<br>that debian building permits.<br><br>[Redhat rpm building does not permit such mid-build manual source-tree<br>freakery and I sometimes wonder if this is why src.rpm's are generally<br>more available than src-debs.]<br>
<br>Sam<br><br>--<br>ubuntu-backports mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
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