Re: splitting a source package into 2 source packages

[Josh Metzler <joshdeb@metzlers.org>]

On Saturday 26 February 2005 02:45 am, sean finney wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm maintaining a source package that produces two binary packages. 
> however, one of the packages is built from a seperately distributed (same
> author, same website, but different tarball and versioning scheme)
> tarball.
>
> so i'm thinking these two packages should be generated from their own
> respective tarballs (and i'm not sure why they weren't in the first
> place).  however, one thing that's not clear to me is whether or not the
> new second source package will have to make it through the NEW queue.
> if it does, this is a problem given that NEW seems to be stalled and the
> previous version of the package will be totally broken when the other
> is updated.
>
> comments would be appreciated... thanks.
>
>  sean

I seem to recall hearing that NEW processing is based solely on binary 
packages, so that the new source package would not need to go through NEW 
if it creates a binary package that is already in the archive.

I couldn't find anything about this through google, though, so it may be 
best to upload to experimental first and see if your new packages go right 
in or not.

Josh