Re: RFS: pdfmerge
On 03/03/04, at 16:09 +1100, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:33:39AM +0100, Philipp Gortan wrote:
> > >The proper place for the script (after doing things right) is
> > >ghostscript upstream. Take a look at pdf2ps and try to get your program
> > >next to that. There's no reason to produce packages for a one liner.
> >
> > ok, so we know the opinion of Thomas, what does the rest of you think?
> > Should it go into gs-common and the like?
> > Or is it package-able on its own?
>
> If, as I've discerned from the discussions going on here, pdfmerge is a
> trivial script which does one small thing, it should be alongside other
> ps/pdf management scripts such as ps2pdf, pdf2ps, ps2ps, and so on. There
> is no reason to package a single script as a separate package. When the
> debian patch is bigger than the program, you've got problems.
I prefer this reply to your last one!
With kind regards,
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