On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:48:13 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >I just mentioned that it's not a good idea to do 3 packages with a same > >tarball. > I see nothing wrong in producing multiple binary packages from a single > source package. In general I of course agree ... > If you do, then please elaborate. ... but in this case (with 3 very small packages) my concern was that additional binary packages add additional overhead to the archive, mirrors, and users' system for no real gain. Or in other words: if the overhead is probably more (just guessing here) than the actual code then splitting up the upstream dist might be undesirable. (But I'm fine with leaving it as it is, I just prefer to see a rough consensus.) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Johann Strauss: Donauwalzer
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