Quoting Sean Whitton (2020-06-21 18:47:57) > [speaking as an FTP team member, not ctte member, though this is *not* > an official statement made on behalf of the whole FTP team] > > Hello Jonas, > > On Sun 21 Jun 2020 at 10:48AM +02, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Could you please elaborate a bit on your opinion that the introduced > > split into katex and libjs-katex is unnecessary? > > I have not looked at this particular package, but here is what I > understand to be the team's consensus: the FTP team wants to see some > technical purpose which is served by the binary package split, to > justify taking up more space in the Packages file. We will also object > if this technical purpose could be easily served by something other than > a binary package split (e.g. by adding Provides: entries). > > So I would assume that the FTP team member who processed this upload > couldn't see how a technical purpose was being served by the split. If > Pirate could explain some technical purpose that was missed that would > be helpful. > > I don't think that the bar is particularly high here. Even if an FTP > team member wouldn't themselves solve the problem by introducing a > binary package split, if it's clear that the maintainer has consciously > chosen to use a binary package split to solve a problem and that's a > reasonable way to go about solving the problem, we'll sign off on it.
Thanks for the clarification, Sean. I think that was quite helpful. I will let Pirate Praveen continue from here. @Sean: You posted twice to the list, but I accidentally rejected one of them - if the other mail was relevant then please send again and I will approve. Sorry for the confusion. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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