Comment 7 for bug 483473

Both. Rapidshare has a -- weird download system with timeouts, bandwidth
and time limitations etc. which makes impossible for uscan to detect new
package versions.
A good package should be able to check for new upstream versions. And I'm
pretty sure that debuild can't work with split archives. The new version of
the packaging specs make it possible to build from more than one source
package, but not from split source packages. (If I'm wrong, please correct
me)
I'll try to build a package from the given source tomorrow.

On Tue, 18 May 2010 22:44:50 -0000, aporter <email address hidden>
wrote:
> Matthias, I sent SRWare an email.
>
> Basically I asked if they had a place other than rapidshare that we
> could download the source and I asked if they had a place where it
> wasn't split up into parts (i.e. 001, 002, 003, 004). I'll let you know
> if they reply.
>
> Just for my own curiosity, can you explain "makes it impossible to make
> Iron available in Ubuntu's universe repositories". Which? Is it the
> rapidshare location or the split into parts problem or both? Why?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> adrian