On 21.05.2011 12:11, Mattias Gaertner wrote: >> The thing I have never understood is why it split into a myriad of >> different .deb files > > Because of Debian policies.
There exists a debian policy to split a large package into some randomly chosen smaller ones although *none* of them can ever be used individually without *all* others? I didn't know this. The only policy I know of is that there is a convention to separate packages for binary and source (and headers if C/C++) and even is not generally applicable to all programming languages. I would just make one binary package and one source package and ignore the affectivities of the debian bureaucrats and let them split it on their own if they so desperately want to split things for no reason that have always belonged together. I promise: They wont. They will take the package as it is. Don't ever let your productivity be hindered by some crazy Debian bureaucrats, don't let them dictate you how to architect your own software, don't waste any valuable time trying to fulfill their crazy unreasonable wishes. Just ignore them. Don't listen to them when they are trying to educate you about your own software, they have no clue about it. Do what makes sense and ignore everything that has no other reason than pure bureaucracy. They will bow (rather sooner than later) because they simply have no other choice and either do the work themselves or (more likely) simply take the package more or less as it is. Bernd _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
