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From: | Tom Hart |
Subject: | Re: Source distribution |
Date: | Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:29:40 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 |
Neal H. Walfield wrote:
Still, it *is* confusing, and although GNU and Debian are separate entities, they are closely related. Perhaps the page could say,I believe the specific text about source distribution on the installation page is innacurate. http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/install.html "We distribute the Hurd sources only through CVS at present." In addition to CVS archives, the sources for the Hurd are available via source debs. I believe something similar to the following would be apprpriate.This is accurate when you consider that GNU and Debian and separate entities: GNU only distributes the source via CVS; Debian has downloaded the source and repackaged it. I understand that it can be a bit confusing as the maintainer is the same, however, they are two completely different jobs.
"GNU distribues the Hurd sources only through CVS at present; users of Debian GNU/Linux can also obtain the Hurd sources as source debs."
In particular, I'm thinking of newbies coming to the Hurd site. This could confuse them.
-- Tom Hart address@hidden
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