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Provide sources in deb-src repository for debian

See original GitHub issue

Your use case

What would you like to do?

To have the source code of the packages at https://packages.element.io/debian/. Official Debian repositories also have the source of the packages.

Why would you like to do it?

To add some option when building it with dpkg-buildpackage.

Have you considered any alternatives?

No response

Additional context

No response

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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dbkrcommented, Apr 27, 2022

Also, this issue could really do with some actual use-cases, ie. what would having this allow people to do? Element isn’t a straightforward tarball of c source code, so it’s not really the case that having source packages would allow it to be built for different architectures.

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Scorpion2185commented, Apr 28, 2022

Yes it is for a deb-src repository with the source code for each version, (so debian users can get the source using apt-get source element-desktop). And the same for any other package version I think that could be useful.

Some people always prefer to compile instead of installing.

In my case I want to try to take a look at this: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/19792. Simply adding element-desktop --no-sandbox doesn’t work.