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[Eli Carter]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> SRPMS apt-repositories are missing for pre-extras.
> 
> This renders "apt-get source" and "apt-get build-dep" non-applicable to
> fedora.us hosted apt-repositories and therefore voids at least these
> aspects where apt is superior to yum.
> 
> I had asked Warren Togami to add them on PM and he answered:
> "There is little good reason to do so.  Trying to limit the size of that
> repository because many mirror administrators see it as redundant."
> 
> This is not true, SRPMS apt-repositories are not redundant. Not having
> them implies loss of functionality to apt.

And having them makes it a _lot_ easier to grab a package, fix 
something, build it, test it, then post a bug report w/patch.

SRPMS repositories _are_ important.

Eli
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