Svante Signell wrote:
>What do you think of the following proposal:
>
>I order to simplify for package authors/maintainers and to reduce
>duplication, distribute the source file packages in .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2)
>format. This avoids the need to provide both .tar.gz, .src.rpm and
>debian source files.
>
>Included in these tarballs add .spec and .dsc files together with
>the original .tar.gz package and .diff.gz files. Then everybody
>interested can build source/binary files for their own preferred
>distribution using the same source files!!
>
>Also the GNU packages could contain .deb and .spec files, as is
The obvious problem I see, is that this needs a new central repository where
someone, or some automatic process, put together all the elements into
one.
Take, for example, PostgreSQL, one of my packages.
I download its source from postgresql.org and build the new package; later
I fix bugs and put up a new Debian release. Presumably Lamar Owen is doing
the same kind of thing for the rpms. However, I don't have the latest
rpms and he doesn't have the latest debs; neither are interested in the
other's product. Who is to put all the elements together and make sure
they are up to date and that they stay up to date?
Then consider if someone loads an experimental version of the same
package; the ordinary version is still current in unstable, but now there
is another version in experimental; and what happens to all the older stuff
in stable? Where do those debs go?
I'm afraid the management problems would be insuperable.
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