Hi, I've prepared a package for gpsd, a GPS (Global Positioning System) daemon. See [0] for the ITP.
I'm not looking for a sponsor (someone already offered to upload it as soon it is in good shape), but for opinions. Generally regarding quality, and a couple of specific questions. - The package contains shared libraries, which as far as I know are only used by the gpsd programs. As I understand it, small packages can keep their libraries in the main package. But is this the preferred option? Would generating lib* and lib*-dev packages be unneccesary bloat or not? (Note that I already split out a couple of helper or test programs into a package called gpsd-clients to keep the dependencies for the main daemon small.) - Basically the same question for python modules. I'd like to move them out of the main package to reduce the dependencies even further. One of the helper programs uses them - can I put them in there? Does a python module need to depend on python - surely any program using this module will depend on python anyway? (lintian says it needs to.) You can find the packages at [1]. Any comments much appreciated! Cheers, Til PS A GPS is not needed to run gpsd, it just won't give out a position... [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/10/msg00843.html [1] http://www.subnetz.org/debian/
