Re: libacme-bleach-perl: Binary packages
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On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:39:05AM +0200, Xavier Oswald wrote:
>On 22:10 Mon 08 Jun , Nathan Handler wrote:
>> Hello,
>
>Hi,
>
>> I recently packaged libacme-bleach-perl [1]. The tarball comes with
>> three Perl modules: Acme::Bleach, Acme::DWIM, and Acme::Morse. These
>> modules serve very different purposes, and are not really related to
>> each other. As a result, I created separate binary packages for each
>> module. These binary packages are very small. They contain one Perl
>> module, one manpage, some example files, and copyright and changelog
>> files. For reference, I have attached the contents of these binary
>> packages to this message. We (gregor herrmann and I) are now trying
>> to decide whether it is better to have these small binary packages,
>> or whether it would be better to have one binary package that
>> installed all three (unrelated) modules. We are interested in hearing
>> what the rest of the team thinks about this issue.
>
>Well, My point of view is that you could ask upstream to do 3 tarballs
>and separate them. And if upstream don't want to do that, keep all 3
>modules in one package. They are not big so it's not annoying having
>them shared in one package.
>
>What I hope you will not choose is to separate the 3 modules in 3
>package and keep this tarball with the 3 modules inside. That's bad !
I fail to see what is bad about current packaging.
Yes, I agree that it would be even better if upstream was convinced to
release source split out, but since that is not currently the case, I
find it perfectly sane to package as described.
It is wrong IMO to package the three modules together in a single binary
package, just because that's what upstream did.
The packages being small should not be a problem. If only there is a
need for the packages, then go for it.
Kind regards,
- Jonas
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