Subject: Re: dpkg 1.3.8: dpkg-buildpackage -sa works and is recommended

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 96 17:22 BST

Peter Tobias asks me in private email:
...
> BTW: I didn't have much time the last weeks (and I won't have much
> time the next weeks) so I wasn't able to check if this new source
> format will also work for packages like netstd (packages which contain
> lots of "sub packages" each with its own original source. Do you
> see any problems with it?

I'm afraid I totally fail to understand the netbase and netstd source
packages.

The new source packaging scheme will require you to put all of these
sub-packages together, and turn the whole thing into a normal package.

Ian.

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From: "Peter Tobias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 23:05:16 +0200 (MET DST)

> I'm afraid I totally fail to understand the netbase and netstd source

Ian Murdock wanted to have them that way to make it easier to download
the sources for a single program. The size of the sources of the first
net package were ~2MB ...

> sub-packages together, and turn the whole thing into a normal package.

No problem. The archive with the original sources would be my own
collection of original sources then ...

Thanks,

Peter

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 13:55 BST

Peter Tobias writes ("Re: dpkg 1.3.8: dpkg-buildpackage -sa works and is recommended"):
...
> collection of original sources then ...

Yes, that's right.

Ian.