Packaging libeio (used by nodejs and libio-aio-perl) separately

[Alessandro Ghedini <al3xbio@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

While updating libio-aio-perl I've noticed that both the nodejs and 
libio-aio-perl packages bundle the libeio library [0], and I was wondering 
if it makes sense to package it as a stand-alone package (as per Debian 
Policy §4.13) instead, like many other distributions do (Fedora, RHEL, 
OpenSUSE, ...).

I haven't tried to build libio-aio-perl (it will need some patches,
coordinating with upstream will be sensible) or nodejs (this seems easier)
with the stand-alone library yet, but I think it may be worth a try.

I've set-up an initial version of the libeio package on git.d.o at [1], 
(note that I've not filed an ITP for it yet, and I won't if we decide that
the package is not needed), and I could also take care of it in the future 
if I find a sponsor, or a DD co-maintainer.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

[0] http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libeio.html
[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/libeio.git

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