Hardware pack questions

[Steve Langasek]

Hi James,

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 05:11:19PM -0400, James Westby wrote:
> A further thought occurred to me the other day.

> I assume that we have to put the source packages in the hwpack too, for
> at least the packages with some GPL code. Given that hwpacks also serve
> as a snapshot of the archive, we can't rely on a pointer to the original
> archive to serve the purpose.

> Knowing which packages to include source for will be tricky, so I would
> implement this as source for all of them, at least to start with.

Is it intended that pre-release hwpacks will be long-lived?  I expected the
same rules to apply as to pre-release images:  ephemeral objects used during
development that would be replaced at release time by images built from the
final archive, leaving no lingering obligation to provide easy access to
source for images we're no longer distributing.  Are the hwpacks not going
to follow this same release cycle?

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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