Re: Alternative to single-file plugin binary packages

[Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>]

On 14/12/25 06:54, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> exim allows one to build lookups and other optional features as dlopened
> shared objects that are opened on-demand. So I could move from ...
>
> Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
> Depends: libc6, ... libmariadb3, libpq5, libldap2, ...
>
> ... to:
> Package: exim4-daemon-modular
> Depends: libc6, ...
>
> Package: exim-mod-mysql
> Depends: libmariadb3
>
> Package: exim-mod-postgresql
> Depends: libpq5
>
> I am not too hot about adding a nontrivial number of tiny binary
> packages

Hi,

what's bad about tiny binary packages? I find the future situation you 
describe much better (from a user point of view) than the existing one.

If you want to reduce the amount of Debian-specific overhead each -mod- 
package has to carry, you can use, for example:

    dh_installdocs --link-doc=exim4-daemon-modular -pexim-mod-mysql …

(dh_installchangelogs should probably also gain a --link-doc= option.)

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci