Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Nathanael Nerode] > Put it in the .diff.gz. If it's too large for that to seem > reasonable to you, then you proabably shouldn't put it in your > package. :-) Heh, and how large is that? The combined effect of 'configure' and '**/Makefile.in' can look pretty formidable, yet people exist who c

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Jay, > > Jay Berkenbilt wrote: >> 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. Thank

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hello Jay, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > 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! IMHO (and I have suggested this particulary for

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
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

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi jay, > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:27:33PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: >> 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

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread David Moreno Garza
On 12:27 Sat 19 Nov 2005, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > 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 don't agree with this, t

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread sean finney
hi jay, On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:27:33PM -0500, 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. Alt

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread Luk Claes
-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.

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:27:33PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > 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 a