Re: Hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} removal

Svante Signell, le dim. 14 avril 2019 10:52:19 +0200, a ecrit:
> On Sun, 2019-04-14 at 10:29 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le dim. 14 avril 2019 10:23:42 +0200, a ecrit:
> > > One problem with debian-ports is that the sources, most interesting
> > > the
> > > *.debian.tar.* files. You cannot any longer add deb-src to the
> > > sources.list and apt-get source <package>; dpkg-buildpackage ...
> > > 
> > > As I understand it the sources have to be added to where the binary
> > > package are e.g. 
> > > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/g/gdb/
> > >  and
> > > the way to build from source is dget 
> > > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/g/gdb/gdb_7.12-6.1+pie.dsc
> > > etc.
> > 
> > For unstable/experimental packages, one can simply use the main
> > archive deb-src line, debian-ports only needs to host the binaries.
> 
> I cannot follow your reasoning here, e.g. at  
> http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/g/glibc/
> there are no source packages, only binary ones. How would I ever get
> hold of your source changes to build that version of glibc?

That version of glibc is in the "unreleased" distribution, not
"unstable". See the main/binary-hurd-i386/Packages.gz files of the
different distribs:

http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/

Samuel