Re: Thinking about bundles

2010-09-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Nicholas Bamber schrieb: >However I have to say that Debian as a whole cannot have it both > ways. Either ftp-master lifts the restriction on Is there any hard reason for such restrictions ? > small modules or there has to be decent support for "components". I have > started work on th

Re: Thinking about bundles

2010-09-19 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Raphael, Thanks for the feedback. However I have to say that Debian as a whole cannot have it both ways. Either ftp-master lifts the restriction on small modules or there has to be decent support for "components". I have started work on this (http://github.com/periapt/pkg-components/blo

Re: Thinking about bundles

2010-09-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, David Bremner wrote: > Well, OK, I see your point. But what should we do about e.g. tiny perl > modules. My/our impression was that ftp-master was not keen on having > many small packages. For example, libcatalyst-modules-perl has installed > size of 1468k, but bundles 81 modul

Re: Thinking about bundles

2010-09-18 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:29:29 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > In the article, I mentionned that bundling unrelated software is not a > good idea in general (mainly because there's no common software > version to use). > > So I think that we should not create any infrastructure to make it > even e

Re: Thinking about bundles

2010-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > I have recently looked into a number of bundle packages. All of them > have different implementations of the debian/rules although the ones > I looked at had clearly once had a common parent. Hence I have been > kept awake at night thinking how this sit

Thinking about bundles

2010-09-09 Thread Nicholas Bamber
I have been looking into the packaging of bundles - that is packages that have multiple upstream sources. There was recently an article on the subject: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/07/how-to-use-multiple-upstream-tarballs-in-debian-source-packages/ . However one must notice this quote: "T