On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Paul Gevers wrote:
> The doublecmd-help package [1] of Graham Inggs (who I sponsor a lot),
> is currently building three packages. One package per language that is
> provided by upstream. These packages together add up to 12MB, about
> 4MB per package. Now, if I were a user of
On 24-04-14 20:41, Don Armstrong wrote:
> The cases where you should split are generally really obvious; if it's
> not clear, ask here or in #debian-mentors, and you'll get some
> reasonable advice.
Ok, so let me show one of the two issues I have at hand (the other is
currently being discussed on
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Paul Gevers wrote:
> The one argument that I can come up with is that adding a package also
> adds about 1kB to the data that everybody in Debian has to download
> (on every update), also the people that are not interested in the
> package (which may be many).
It also increase
Hi all,
In the last couple of days, the following came up multiple times.
Splitting binary packages adds to the total amount of packages in
Debian. I have heard that (some) people are very careful before they
decide to do that. What is the argument? I can come up with one, but I
wonder if there is
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