-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jay
Jay Berkenbilt wrote: >>From time to time, someone announces an intention to package some tiny > script or program, and people suggest including it in some other > package instead to avoid pollution of the archive with lots of tiny > packages. Although I understand the reasoning and the issues here > (additional overhead for each package), this has always bothered me a > little. I'm not sure that, as an upstream author, I would necessarily > want the debian version of my package to be bundled with other > software that was similar in functionality but otherwise unrelated to > my package. > > I've recently taken over maintenance of psutils and am gradually > working through the outstanding bugs on that package. A few of the > bugs suggest adding external programs. Assuming there are no other > impediments (like licensing problems), do people generally think that > it's reasonable to do this even if the other packages aren't really > part of the upstream package? If so, are there usual mechanisms for > doing this? What about version numbers? > > My inclination would be decline requests to add unrelated packages to > psutils, but I thought I'd solicit input from others in case someone > has some perl (oops, pearl) of wisdom that I have overlooked. Thanks! Maybe you could consider to add a package psutils-addons or something similar? Cheers Luk - -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDf2WT5UTeB5t8Mo0RArGCAJ9+3kDynQ68OrCg1XOkQ5Wb9qgKEQCgzEGT Hu6Wb0xZdC4vbYZjdP136D8= =hk7a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
