On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:04:21AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > (Why was Manoj's message also sent individually to me?) > > On 07-Apr-2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > If the current version is what we are interested, why not > > get it from the canonical site, the Debian archive? > > The Debian archive is *not* the canonical location for the upstream's > original source. The upstream's repository (whether VCS or static > files or whatever they make available) is the canonical location. > Debian's archive might be more consistent and convenient, but it's an > intermediary source for most packages, *not* canonical.
Debian's archive might contain DFSG modified orig tarballs anyway, right? > It's not at all unusual for me to *not* want to get the latest version > precisely because I'm not ready to package that version, or because it > is worse (FSVO worse) than the version specified in > ‘debian/changelog’. Yes, I more often find myself wanting to just get the current tarball. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
