Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #13186, comment 2


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Nov 26, 2024, 6:48:40 PM (4 months ago)
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Tim Kosse

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  • TabularUnified Ticket #13186, comment 2

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    1111On the technical side, not keeping a copy of the sources prevents rebuilding a package if upstream is unavailable. Thus the continuous availability of each individual download site for the hundreds if not thousands of critical packages turns each of it into a single point of failure. To illustrate with a hypothetical example: Imagine an unavoidable ABI change in glibc [1] forcing a rebuild of just about everything. In this situation, how would you deal with for example x.org [2] no longer being available? Drop every package depending on X11?
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    13 Then there is also the legal aspects with software distributed under the GPL and similar licenses: How can one distribute packages of GPL software, without being able to make the sources available?
     13Then there is also the legal aspects with software distributed under the GPL and similar licenses: How can one distribute packages of GPL software, without being able to make the sources available, should upstream become unavailable?
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