On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 12:03:46AM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 10:57 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > It still feels wrong however, that the distro maintainers dictate > > > to upstream packages how to do their business. > > > > which is... distributing and integrating the software? (after all, > > that's what those *-config are supposed to do, aren't they?) > > Yes, because surprisingly enough I didn't have any issues with PostgreSQL > library config script and neither mySQL library config script. > > Does unixODBC have more love than everything else? ;-) Most probably just a different maintainer. Too lazy to look it up right now. > Or there is something else going on? > > The maintainers just needs to decide whether everything should use > "pkg-config" or everything should use "own config" file. There are few things which get decided top-down in Debian. That's one of the most salient points of this distro. That's what I appreciate in it. > And if its me - I'd vote for letter - less maintenance burden for me. > If something bad happens - lets upstream deal with the issues. > > Wouldn't you? Not necessarily. The foo-config (for foo in PostgreSQL, sqlite, MariaDB) all behave probably slightly differently. That's why pkg-config entered the scene, after all. So there are arguments for both sides, Such transitions sometimes work, sometimes they don't. Cheers -- t
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