Subject: Is it okay to download orig source once only?

From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 13:38:18 +0200

Hello,

Erick asked the question, but I don't remember if there was an answer.
Would it be okay if, when uploading changes to a package, we only upload
a .deb and a .diff.gz file? This would help people like us who have slow
PPP connections but maintain big packages.

I propose that we upload once

        somepackage_release.tar.gz

which unpacks to

        somepackage-release.orig/

and then further uploads would be

        somepackage_release-deb.diff.gz
        somepackage_release-deb_arch.deb

Would that be okay?
Yves.

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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:45:14 -0500 (CDT)

On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:

> a .deb and a .diff.gz file?

No, it wouldn't be ok.  Why don't you just use your account on master
to rebuild the source packages?  Then you could do basically what you
want.

Guy

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 96 23:23 BST

Yves Arrouye writes ("Is it okay to download orig source once only?"):
...
>         somepackage_release-deb_arch.deb

Not at the moment, no, because the .tar.gz is the debianised source.

However with the new source package format this is possible in
principle, though in practice there are a few technical issues with
dpkg-source to be sorted out.

Ian.