Merging partman

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Hi,

I have some cause to think about creating a .deb of partman: it would be
useful in a live CD installer that wants to do autopartitioning using
the same code as is used in the regular installer. For several reasons
I'd much rather create one sensible-sized .deb instead of 18 tiny .debs,
but I can't do that at the moment because partman is broken down into
lots of little source packages.

I understand why partman is broken down into lots of *binary* udebs, and
obviously we can't change that without having a serious effect on lowmem
installations and so on. However, I don't think there's really a good
reason any more why it shouldn't be a single source package.

Would anyone (especially Anton) object to me merging the whole lot
together? I was basically thinking of creating packages/partman/debian/
and leaving the other directories more or less as they are now, although
some further rationalisation there might make sense later.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]