Debian Developers - Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

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Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo

2005-03-19, 7:47 am

El sáb, 19-03-2005 a las 04:13 -0600, Bill Allombert escribió:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
>
> Also it is an example of ridiculously large source packages, which
> create other problems by themself like the amount of bandwidth wasted
> when one has to apply a one-line fix, in particular for security updates.

FYI GNOME is not a unique source package but a bunch of source
packages, that can be (and are) upgraded independently. The only point
when almost all them must be uploaded together is when a new release is
made, and even then things don't need to go in a one push upload.

Cheers,
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Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
jsogo@debian.org