Restructuring ubuntu-dev-tools?

Serge E. Hallyn serge.hallyn at canonical.com
Fri Feb 18 13:08:30 UTC 2011


Quoting أحمد المحمودي (aelmahmoudy at sabily.org):
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 05:40:18PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > I just don't find it plausible that we would want/need a tool in Debian on
> > the chance that someone doesn't want to add source entries.  But that's best
> > discussed with the devscripts maintainers, not with me as a proxy. :-)
> ---end quoted text---
> 
> Personally I find pull-debian-source & pull-lp-source to be better than 
> adding source entries & using 'apt-get source', the reason is that 
> I find that source entries cause 'apt-get update' take a considerably 
> longer time to finish !

I never knew about those.  I think I'm about to remove my src entries
and start using those, thanks guys :)

-serge



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