Re: Split Packages files based on new section "buildlibs"

[Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>]

On 15949 March 1977, Thomas Goirand wrote:

> I'm sorry but I don't understand everything here. If we aren't going 
> to
> have new components like main/contrib/non-free, how will it work? We
> main contain a new Packages.{gz,xz} file containing these? I'm 
> guessing
> that it's not just a modification to that file, because you wrote the
> goal is to diminish its size...

> From my original mail:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
The current proposal is to reduce the main Packages.xz files size by
splitting[4] out all of the packages that are not intended for users,
writing those into an own file.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The *exact* implementation is currently fluid, a Packages-buildlibs.xz 
and a kind of subcomponent-style for main both seem options.

--
bye, Joerg