[tldistro] tarballs for TeX Live

[Frank Küster]

karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote:

> Hi Alexis,
>
>     I remember you preferred to not point distros packages to tug.org;
>     is that still valid ?
>
> Most definitely.
>
>     Pointing to tug will make the mirrors fetch from it
>
> I expect you have a lot of mirrors (as do all the distros).  If every
> mirror of every distro (or, probably, *any* distro) gets files from
> tug.org, I foresee problems.

Debian also distributes the original tarballs on our ftp master machine,
and the mirrors fetch from there, so this shouldn't be a problem. Of
course individual users or developers doing quality assurance work will
look at the original source.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)