On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 6a. No unnecessary up/down-loading by maintainers. > > Is this such a big issue? With your overseas FTP problems you can judge > that, but I'd feel more confident if the maintainer uploaded the entire > package as one piece.
I agree. I think that providing patches only would be a bad idea, for reasons that have already been described here. I am strongly of the opinion that we should provide source packages in an easily-rebuildable form, without the need to apply patches and such. I like Ian Jackson's proposal.
