Re: Question about native packages
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> Well, as I said the choice between native and non-native is simply a choice
> of source distribuition formats, not of "status" (at least IMHO).
I don't quite get your point here...
> If native works well for your package right, now... then by all means go
> ahead and distribute it as native. Just keep in mind that should the
> situation change, you might want to change to non-native format to ease up
> on our mirrors.
It works quite well, for now. And yes, I am considering the change to
non-natife format. But that makes things a bit more complicated than they
need to be and it doesn't have any real advantage. At least not yet.
> Debian needs to minimize mirror sync pulse, which is the main reason for the
> non-native source format. If it gains you nothing, you don't have to use it.
That's exactly my point.
> > [...]
> > What exactly is "small"? xine source tarball is about 800K. It started
> > with some 350K in November 2000...
>
> If you have to ask, it is not small :)
Okay, but it illustrates the amount of code change...
> > I'd add one additional scenario: Native is a good option for highly
> > unstable software. (Here, "Unstable" refers to update frequency, not
> > number of crashes.)
>
> Yes.
So we can keep this bug closed and I can turn to the 0.3.7 and 0.4.0
releases again?
Thanks,
Siggi
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