Le samedi 12 juillet 2014 à 12:03 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:55:02PM +0200, Leo Iannacone wrote: > >On 12 July 2014 12:35, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: > >> > >> tack:~/debian/ms.js$ wc -l index.js > >> 111 index.js > >> > >> Am I missing something, or is the working code in this package really > >> just 111 lines? Why isn't this bundled up into something more > >> reasonable in size for the packaging system? > > > >No, you're right. It is really small. > > > >But, after discussing this in JavaScript team we ended up that it is > >better have separated packages, instead of having a big > >"nodejs-common" (or whatever) package, in order to properly track > >upstream releases individually. > > Right. Did you discuss that with ftpmaster or anybody else outside of > the javascript team? There's typically been a consensus against very > small packages containing just a single script or piece of code so > small that the packaging metadata is going to be as big as (or bigger > than!) the package contents. The packaging overhead hits every single > user of Debian...
Can you give reference(s) to that consensus ? Can you be more specific about the way small packages "hit" users ? (numbers, please). Jérémy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1405170874.14141.3.camel@imac.chaumes
