Re: GNU Scientific Library (GSL) 0.8 is released

["Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian dot org>]

> "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?   

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