Re: GNU Scientific Library (GSL) 0.8 is released

[Martin Quinson <Martin dot Quinson at ens-lyon dot fr>]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:54:37AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> 
> > "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > > Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
> > > >  > >      * Packages for Debian GNU/Linux: libgsl0, libgsl0-dev, gsl-ref-psdoc
> > > >  > 
> > > >  > Please add the actual links for these
> > > >  >    
> > > >  >      http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gsl/
> > > >  >      http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gsl-ref-psdoc/
> > > >  > 
> > > > 
> > > > Ok, but shouldn't they install it using apt-get or dselect?
> > > 
> > > Sure, that works as well, is generally speaking a lot easier and doesn't 
> > > require the links. 
> > > 
> > > But there are situations where you just want to grab just the .orig.tar.gz, 
> > > .dsc and .diff.gz to recompile them locally (e.g. when the build daemons 
> > 
> > That's what `apt-get source' is for.
> 
> Again, "sure in general" but you cut & deleted a relevant other part of my 
> previous prose: this doesn't cut the mustard if you follow an older release 
> (say, potato) and you deb-src points to that too. Also, I prefer not have 
> deb-src entries in sources.conf as this slows "apt-get update" down.
> 
> All these reasons are fine and valid, but could someone please tell me (in 
> private as this is getting way off-topic for the list) exactly what harm is 
> caused by adding these links?   

These urls are bad because they are so american-oriented. When you point to 

http://packages.debian.org/libgsl0
http://packages.debian.org/libgsl0-dev
http://packages.debian.org/gsl-ref-psdoc

you have all the info you get from the url you gave (and much more), and
you can download what you want from the nearest mirror.

Bye, Mt.