Sebastian Andrzej Siewior schrieb am Do 09. Jan, 09:05 (+0100):
> On 2025-01-08 13:21:19 [-0500], John Kacur wrote:
> > We've been doing this for 15+ years. Normally I would expect the package
> > creators to come-up with a work around and not expect the people offering
> > the packages to accomdate your packaging software.
>
> This does not mean it does not deserve to be fixed once people complain.
> Debian and Fedora download the source package and host it themself so
> they don't rely on upstream's copy of it. Other, such as buildroot or
> Gentoo or even yocto download it on every request.
For the record: Yocto uses the git repository (pinned by commit ID) to get
the source.
Regards, Jörg
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