Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de> writes: > On 11/02/2016 02:04 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> There have been various efforts to aggregate tiny packages together >> into larger packages in the past. I'm familiar with some of those >> efforts on the Perl team. My impression is that, in every case where >> upstream was not doing the same aggregation, the result has been >> somewhere between uncomfortably awkward and a disaster. > We have an even worse situation with nagios-plugins-contrib - various > upstreams, various (often weird) download locations and a mix plugins > from single tiny scripts to stuff that uses automake, flex and others to > build plugins. > The solution was a bit of python code, a generic makefile and we even > have a 'uscan' replacement. > The gory details are described in > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bzed/pkg-nagios-plugins-contrib/master/debian/README.source > in case you're interested. Ah, interesting. That's the first success story I've heard. Have you had any trouble with confused users who can't figure out if they have the right version of some upstream plugin? (I suppose that's a bit less of a problem for this since no one cares about Build-Depends, etc., for plugins, and mostly people just run whatever we package and don't worry about it.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
