Ansgar Burchardt debian.org> writes:
> On 12/18/2012 05:09 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
[…]
> > also a talk about keeping old versions of the source package around for
> > license compliance. This is mostly related to packages "embedding"
> > (parts of) other packages during builds (I believe they w
On 12/18/2012 05:09 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Besides build failures (as suggested by Roland and Stuart), there is
> also a talk about keeping old versions of the source package around for
> license compliance. This is mostly related to packages "embedding"
> (parts of) other packages during buil
On 2012-12-18 16:01, Simon Kainz wrote:
> So whats the point in having multiple versions of the same source package?
> I'm really interested in the background if this issue.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
Besides build failures (as suggested by Roland and Stuart), there is
also
>> So whats the point in having multiple versions of the same source
>> package?
>
> My guess: there are multiple versions of the binary packages depending
> on the architecture, and the archive kept the corresponding source
> packages.
Indeed -- gcc-snapshot has a habit of failing to build on
Simon Kainz, 2012-12-18 16:01:26 +0100 :
[...]
> So whats the point in having multiple versions of the same source package?
My guess: there are multiple versions of the binary packages depending
on the architecture, and the archive kept the corresponding source
packages.
Roland.
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Hi.
When i look at
ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/debian/dists/sid/main/source/Sources.gz
There are multiple entries for e.g. the package
gcc-snapshot:
skainz$ cat Sources |grep "Package: gcc-snapshot" -A 3
Package: gcc-snapshot
Binary: gcc-snapshot
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