On Sun, 2019-04-14 at 10:29 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le dim. 14 avril 2019 10:23:42 +0200, a ecrit: > > One problem with debian-ports is that the sources, most interesting > > the > > *.debian.tar.* files. You cannot any longer add deb-src to the > > sources.list and apt-get source <package>; dpkg-buildpackage ... > > > > As I understand it the sources have to be added to where the binary > > package are e.g. > > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/g/gdb/ > > and > > the way to build from source is dget > > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/g/gdb/gdb_7.12-6.1+pie.dsc > > etc. > > For unstable/experimental packages, one can simply use the main > archive deb-src line, debian-ports only needs to host the binaries.
I cannot follow your reasoning here, e.g. at http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/g/glibc/ there are no source packages, only binary ones. How would I ever get hold of your source changes to build that version of glibc?
