[Discuss] all Debian package source files browsable online

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:41:39PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> 
> While you could always apt-get the source package, it was often more
> convenient to try and find a source file online, if all you wanted to do
> was look up where some error message appeared in the source to get a
> better understanding of what triggers it or the like. Tracking down
> source files that are browsable online was often a pain, and then you
> wouldn't know whether the version you found really corresponded to the
> version installed on your system.

packages.debian.org will happily hand you links to (1) the upstream source
site, (2) the original source as used to create the packages and (3)
the complete set of patches and scripts to rebuild the package yourself.

-dsr-