On 14/12/25 06:54, Andreas Metzler wrote:
exim allows one to build lookups and other optional features as dlopened
shared objects that are opened on-demand. So I could move from ...
Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
Depends: libc6, ... libmariadb3, libpq5, libldap2, ...
... to:
Package: exim4-daemon-modular
Depends: libc6, ...
Package: exim-mod-mysql
Depends: libmariadb3
Package: exim-mod-postgresql
Depends: libpq5
I am not too hot about adding a nontrivial number of tiny binary
packages
Hi,
what's bad about tiny binary packages? I find the future situation you
describe much better (from a user point of view) than the existing one.
If you want to reduce the amount of Debian-specific overhead each -mod-
package has to carry, you can use, for example:
dh_installdocs --link-doc=exim4-daemon-modular -pexim-mod-mysql …
(dh_installchangelogs should probably also gain a --link-doc= option.)
Regards,
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Gioele Barabucci
