Re: Bug#151613: xauth
Josip Rodin wrote:
> Is there any particular reason why this isn't Cc:ed to the BTS? :)
>
We've already been discussing this on debian-x without the BTS in CC in
the last days.
> One thing that I would add is that it's not clear whether this would be a
> source+binary split, or just binary. I went looking upstream, and noticed
> that these programs are each in their own subtree under
> git.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/ (list visible at http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/ )
> xbase-clients currently appears to be a semi-random subset of those.
>
Right now, I think the plan was to keep a single source and only split
the binary package.
> Given that these days both the drivers and the libraries are split, I think
> that we would actually do the world a service if we stopped scheming how to
> bump several programs into a smaller number of packages, and just Xu'ed the
> whole thing. Pseudo-packages can exist to bump associated binary packages
> together for the users' benefit, but there's no real reason to keep anything
> else together.
>
Maintenance cost is actually a real reason here. More source packages
implies more work to do, but it does unfortunately not imply more people
and time to do it :/
Brice
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