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Re: Changing the way we deal with source archives

On Mar 7, Galen Hazelwood wrote
> > Yep.  RedHat does a much better job of handling source than we
> > currently do.
> 
> But they pay a heavy price for it.  You can't do anything useful with
> a RedHat source package unless you have rpm installed, while anybody
> with gunzip, tar and patch can reconstruct a debian source package.
> Just like anyone with ar, gunzip, and tar can extract stuff from a
> debian binary.

This is only because RedHat chooses to wrap their source files in a
binary, RPM file.  It is quite possible to reconstruct their source
using only emacs, gunzip, cpio, tar and patch.  In fact, I have done
it myself several times.

> I feel that this is an important and subtle win for us; we don't go
> around creating New And Improved(TM) binary formats for their own sake.
> More flexibility in how we handle source would be good, but we should
> be careful to keep things open.

There is no reason we can't come up with something in a more user
friendly package that incorporates their concepts.  

David
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