Disabling deb-src by default

[Bob Holtzman]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:49:37AM +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Usama Akkad wrote on 28/01/16 08:38:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > ...
> 
> "Default sources.list file has source packages enabled by default"
> <http://launchpad.net/bugs/74747>
> 
> Maybe someone will fix this bug before its tenth birthday.
>

What makes you think it's a bug? Have you timed the updates with and
without sources in the list? Is it significant for you?
 
> I've catalogued other ways to speed up software updates.
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#Ideas>
> 
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