On Tue, 06 Mar 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:54:31PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > You gain nothing in upload time, but it certains give you less hassle to > > only have one single source tree in CVS, for example. > > Yeah, it's a cute hack. > > Too bad that the entire source needs to be duplicated, though.
AFAIK, it is a policy requirement. Every section of the archive (main, contrib, non-free, non-US/main, non-US/contrib, non-US/non-free) must have separate source packages. Maybe it could be changed/ignored for main/contrib pairs, but non-free and non-US/* always require separate source packages. Some of the stuff that can go inside a non-free source package is not allowed even inside main/contrib packages (requiring you to delete them from the package in main/contrib, and keep it in the non-free one)... I'm happy enough I can build fetchmail and fetchmail-ssl with one shell script, and deal with only one source tree... cute hack or not :P -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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