On 2020, ജൂൺ 21 11:55:54 PM IST, Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> wrote: >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.
Thanks Jonas for asking this question. I hope my explanation was clear. >@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 > -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel
