Bug#718893: RFS: coinutils/2.9.4-1 [ITA] -- CoinOR base library

[Miles Lubin <miles.lubin@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Sune Vuorela <sune@debian.org> wrote:
> And in this specific case, the coinor build systems in general is so full of
> weirdnesses that just adapting it in smaller bits is much more feasable than
> adapting all of it.
>
> And given the different parts of coinor also have different release schedules it
> is also easier to provide the actual newest fixed bits with separate packages
> rather than large combined packages.
>
> So from my experience, both with coinor and with other large source packages,
> (KDE*, Qt*), separate sources is just the thing to do.

Thanks for sharing your experience with this. I agree that keeping the
source packages separate is the better approach, especially given how
different the release schedules are and how infrequently updated
CoinAll is.