On 2020-05-20 10:16 +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: > Hi list, > > Upstream for a package I maintain has as of its latest release started > bundling and requiring a third-party header-only library. I am > considering packaging that third-party library (it's useful to me, at > the very least) but I think it's a borderline case of whether it > warrants being a package on its own. In particular, it does not do > versioned releases, and it comes with no documentation I don't think those are reasons particularly in favour of bundling. Plenty of software doesn't do proper releases any more. Just use 0~<date> type versioning to allow for them eventually doing a release 0.1 or whatever. Again obscure software is quite often poorly documented - you are expected to know the field. If it is useful beyond this one package (and it sounds like it is) I'd just package it. A headers-only library is relatively quick and easy to do. > I > would track the bundling as a bug and act on it when/if a separate > package enters Debian. Would you necessarily notice when another package using this dependency enters the archive? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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