Re: Decreasing packaging overhead
On 2015-11-02 22:55, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> It's not the package which is a bad practice, here, the maintainer is
> only dealing with upstream.
>
> What's a bad practice is creating a library for 2 lines of code.
> Upstream should have tried to integrate this function into a bigger
> library with more functionality to make it more useful.
i resent the notion that either is bad practice.
the problem merely reflects that Debian's concept of packages does not
map well to other communities' concepts of packages (and i think i'm in
line here with josh).
our tried and tested concept of packages/libraries has been working for
decades. young and emerging software development processes (might) have
different needs.
fgmasdr
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