Most packages moved to "upstream source present" in the debian branch with the move to git, partly because it was much more convenient to work with.
Hi Neal
mangling packaging data into source code. I really wish they'd change how the source packaging model worked to firmly split it.
Would you be prepared to expand on this, please? I don't understand it. Perhaps it's because my historical experience is the inverse of yours (familiar with Deb, not too great with RPM).
From my POV Debian has a firmer split than RPM-style (orig.tar.gz; ./debian sub-dir; etc) so I must be missing something.
it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive test suite written by somebody else, 5 different models, a megawatt-hour of energy, a swimming pool full of water, and a month of spare time of an extremely senior engineer
c.f. https://jmtd.net/log/christmas_songs_that_are_not/(2012)
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