Ian Jackson wrote: > > BTW: I didn't have much time the last weeks (and I won't have much > > time the next weeks) so I wasn't able to check if this new source > > format will also work for packages like netstd (packages which contain > > lots of "sub packages" each with its own original source. Do you > > see any problems with it? > > I'm afraid I totally fail to understand the netbase and netstd source > packages.
Ian Murdock wanted to have them that way to make it easier to download the sources for a single program. The size of the sources of the first net package were ~2MB ... > The new source packaging scheme will require you to put all of these > sub-packages together, and turn the whole thing into a normal package. No problem. The archive with the original sources would be my own collection of original sources then ... Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias EMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]
