Re: what about a camlp{4,5}-misc package ...
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:31:26AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:26:24AM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> > IMHO, i would prefer having a lot of small packages that can be updated
> > independently (i.e. one package per extension). Maybe you can consider
> > that those extensions will be "Arch: all" and will only add 1 package and
> > no buildd load...
>
> I don't want to carry the load of having several extension packages when
> the extensions are small. I think it's unlikely that we will have a
> package for the various extensions I mentioned in the wiki page; at
> least I don't think I will take the steps to create the various packages
> (but frankly I don't think anyone else will).
>
> On the contrary I think I will be happy to work, once, in creating the
> aggregate package. That's it.
>
> I agree with the perplexities of multi-source Debian packages in
> general, but I do believe they make sense for small pieces of software
> and we have plenty of examples in the archive; I myself are maintaining
> vim-addons for example. Note that the case of ocamlmakefile was quite
> peculiar in this respect, since it's a package on which a lot of
> packages can build depend.
I remember vaguely having read about a planned extension of dpkg-*
to multiple tarballs, if this happens it will make aggregate packages
much easier.
-Ralf.
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