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

On 14 Apr 2019, at 14:14, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote:
> Svante Signell, le dim. 14 avril 2019 14:29:48 +0200, a ecrit:
>> On Sun, 2019-04-14 at 11:33 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> Svante Signell, le dim. 14 avril 2019 10:52:19 +0200, a ecrit:
>>>> 
>>>> 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/
>> 
>> Yes, the glibc version is there, but where are the sources, i.e.
>> the *2.27.orig.tar.*, *2.27-8+hurd.1.debian.tar.* and *2.27-
>> 8+hurd.1.dsc files?
> 
> They were not uploaded at the time. I don't know if the current
> debian-port upload queue can now take them for the unreleased distrib.

Yes, it can, has done for as long as I've been around (though admittedly that's
only a few years). The Sources file remains empty, but the .dsc etc get put in
the pool alongside the .deb; see, for example silo[1].

One day I (or someone else) will finish dak-for-ports so we can have non-empty
Sources files and use deb-src, among other things...

James

[1] https://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-sparc64/main/s/silo/