Re: ITP: libcmd-ruby -- library for building line-oriented command interpreters in Ruby
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:32:16PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +1000, Mike Williams wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, April 14, 2005 13:16, Marcelo E. Magallon said:
> > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:05:25PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> > >
> > > > Note: I have an ITP open on libformatr-ruby (#295171) and both this
> > > > library and formatr are very small, so I am hesitant to put them in
> > > > their own packages. I plan instead to create an aggregate package
> > > > (libruby-extras or something) with non-standard ruby libs that are
> > > > helpful.
> > >
> > > I wouldn't do that.
> >
> > Neither would I.
> >
> > David, I urge you package these libs separately, even though they're
> > small. That way, both the package descriptions and version numbers will
> > make more sense wrt upstream.
>
> OK, agreed, but that doesn't mean we can do it together or form a team
> for more (small) packages and maintainers to join :)
I don't think I agree yet. When the packaging itself is as big or bigger
than the library it becomes really silly. We have a lot of precedence for
these things in debian already, with various -extras packages. Also note
that creating a zillion little libraries adds extra load on the ftpmasters,
and also on our users who will have to manually select each and every
library they need.
This is the same problem that ruby users complained about Debian's
packaging before.
- David Nusinow
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