Re: changelog and /usr/share/doc/package as a symlink
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 10:01:29AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 27-Apr-2002 Oohara Yuuma wrote:
> > Suppose that a source package makes two .deb, "package-data" and "package"
> > (which depends on "package-data"), and /usr/share/doc/package is a symlink
> > to /usr/share/doc/package-data . Should "package" depend on exactly the
> > same version of "package-data"?
> >
> > allows any version
> > -> changelog may be out of date if only "package" is upgraded
> >
> > depneds on the same version
> > -> forces the user to download huge "package-data" on each upgrade
> >
>
> and as always you must ask yourself -- why am I splitting this package? Does
> it make sense for the user to only install one of them? Can they function out
> version sync? Since the user is likely to just be apt-get upgrading anyway,
> what chance is there that a version skew will occur?
'Is the -data package arch-independant, and large enough to save lots of
disk on the mirrors?'
> Don't just split without good reason.
Just making sure one of the good reasons was seen in the discussion.
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