Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:29 PM, XeCycle <XeCycle@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu, like Debian, guesses you won't need those files.  You can
>> get the source release from GNU.
>
> Not entirely correct. In debianoids, one can download the sources from
> which a binary package was built by issuing this:
>
> # apt-get source <packagename>
>
> e.g.
>
> # apt-get source emacs
>
> This puts the sources in a subdirectory of the current working
> directory, so then Emacs needs to be configured to find its sources
> there.

Ah, right, I forgot that.  Most binary distributions don't
provide sources by default, so I'm accustomed to get sources from
official releases.

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