[tlug] Debian rant

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Shawn Brown writes:

 > I'm sorry that I can't rigidly follow ideology.
 > 
 > It seems weird to me that to make a Debian package that will load a
 > binary onto another device, that the src files and tool chain
 > needed to make that binary be included in the Debian package.

It's entirely unclear what you're talking about.  Is it possible that
this is just the GPL requirement to include the preferred version of
the source for modifying the software in any distribution?  If it is,
it's not a question of "Debian ideology", it's the law.