Hi, Am Dienstag, den 03.08.2010, 09:01 -0700 schrieb John MacFarlane: > Baking in blobs would work okay for filestore, since it's just one > short text file, but if you had, say, a graphics library that had > lots of image data files, you might not want to bake those all into > the binary -- it would make the binary very large. So this doesn't > seem a general solution to the general problem. It also requires > cooperation of the upstream packager, who must decide to use hsb2hs > instead of cabal data files. Sure, but there are interesting use cases that makes developing and deploying hsb2hs worth it. I hat to manually turn a text file into a bunch of "..." lines myself a few times (CSS and JS-Code, IIRC). > But I still don't see a good solution to the versioning problem. > Let me just summarize the problem to make sure I understand it correctly. Note that we have to differenciate between the build-time-dependencies of the gitit source package and the gitit binary package! > * If gitit were to depend on an exact version of libghc6-filestore-data, then > it would also have to depend on an exact version of libghc6-filestore-dev. Not correct. The gitit binary package would depend on the specific -data package in the same version as the -dev package _it built with_, because it contains filestore code from that version. > And this would be inconvenient because you'd have to update the gitit > package every time you updated the filestore package, no matter how > minor the change. Semi-Right. Because the old -data package would not be around any more, gitit would have to be rebuilt. But as the source package does not have to be changed, a binNMU is sufficient, so this is no big deal. > * If gitit did not depend on an exact version of libghc6-filestore-data, > then there would be a potential for breakage, because gitit would be > using the old filestore code (that it was compiled with) together with the > new filestore data. Correct. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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