On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:32:07AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 06:54:29PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > | I just grabbed one (#7) and all I saw were .deb files. > > I'm not sure how the source is packed on a debian cd ... I never > burned the source cds myself. I know this, though : > RPM-based distros pack the source in a "srpm". > The debian packages site provides 3 files for each source : > 1) the original upstream tarball > 2) a patch of changes the DD made for debian > 3) the DD's signature on the files, so you know they're for real > > It is possible that the cds have 1,2,3 packed into a .deb.
They'll be .dsc plus either .diff.gz+.orig.tar.gz or .tar.gz. With the exception of some special cases, source doesn't come in .deb files; and even in those special cases there's always a corresponding source package containing the Debian scripts that produce the .deb. > | If source are not on the 8 CD's, how many more CD's would it take? > | > | It must be on there because don't the rules say the source comes > | along? > > The GPL (if that's the rules you're referring to) says the source must > be *available* if the recipient wants it. It is certainly permissible > for a customer to say "I don't want the source cds, don't give them to > me". CD vendors should always be able to distribute source code if asked, and it's always available from the Debian archive. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
