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Re: changelog and /usr/share/doc/package as a symlink



On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:58:15AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> "Joel Baker" <lucifer@lightbearer.com> cum veritate scripsit:
> > 'Is the -data package arch-independant, and large enough to save lots of
> > disk on the mirrors?'
> 
> That's pretty subjective, about "lots of disk".

Many cases of when to split packages are indeed subjective.

> A more solid reasoning:
> 
> 'Are the upstream source packages distributed as different tarballs?'
> (rather than hacking the pristine-upstream-source to include the -data
> portion, they should be distributed separately)

The original poster was talking about one source package generating
multiple binary packages, so I don't think that's really relevant.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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