Re: libacme-bleach-perl: Binary packages
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:10:26PM +0000, Nathan Handler wrote:
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> Hello,
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> 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.
One source package and three binary packages would be a good choice when the
three binary packages depend on different other packages.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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