Disabling deb-src by default

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Hello,

On 28 January 2016 at 10:49, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:
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> Usama Akkad wrote on 28/01/16 08:38:
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>> Source packages are enabled by default. I've commented the deb-src
>> line from my sources.list file and that saved the update servers
>> 16 hit (out of 87) when doing apt-get update One of the package for
>> the sources of the universe repository was 7 MB.
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> "Default sources.list file has source packages enabled by default"
> <http://launchpad.net/bugs/74747>
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> Maybe someone will fix this bug before its tenth birthday.
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> I've catalogued other ways to speed up software updates.
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#Ideas>

Hehe, I have giggled at:

Stop issuing “no-change rebuild” updates.

In actual fact the wording is misleading. The source code of _this_
package did not change, however one of the library dependencies have
changed ABI and thus a rebuild is required against the new library to
keep the package in question (a) installable (b) working. It's a
necessary evil, and it's not pointless =)

But i guess we should word our changelogs better somehow....

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Regards,

Dimitri.