On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:02:00 AM Daniel J Blueman wrote: > By large, developers are uninterested in this, but it is important for > users and where we use Ubuntu. > > Anyone care to comment on how we can progress this?
I think most developers would believe the current situation is appropriate. By default users have the same access to source and binary packages and for a free software distribution, that is the ethically correct approach. Scott K > On 15 July 2013 13:32, Daniel J Blueman <dan...@quora.org> wrote: > > From earlier feedback, there were no overriding reasons why package > > sources should be enabled by default. > > > > We not only save congestion on security.ubuntu.com, but quite a lot of > > country-level mirrors point to Canonical's servers, which are > > relatively distant and slow (~80KB/s from here), so this is a win. > > > > So, what's the path to change this? > > > > On 21 May 2013 22:04, J Fernyhough <j.fernyho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 21 May 2013 13:55, Robie Basak <robie.ba...@canonical.com> wrote: > >>> What if we provided a reasonable message if no deb-src lines are > >>> defined, with a single simple command to add them and run "apt-get > >>> update" for you? > >> > >> I don't think it would even need that - software-properties (Software > >> & Updates) already has the necessary checkbox. All that is needed to > >> enable sources is to tick that box. > >> > >>> From a technical point of view, does mirroring the deb lines into > >>> deb-src lines work in all cases? Would doing so break anything? > >> > >> This is effectively what Software Sources does under-the-hood. > >> > >> I have to agree, if the amount being downloaded is not trivial (which > >> I thought it was) then there's no need to have them enabled by default > >> when it's very easy to turn them on. One of the first things I do on > >> any new install is disable those that aren't needed. > >> > >> Jonathon > >> > >> (to the list this time) > >> > >> -- > >> Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > >> Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss> > > -- > > Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
