On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:07:42PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > I can see that this is suboptimal. Given that this is how the modules > are distributed upstream ie. individually, how should I avoid this? > Would it be acceptable to package them all as one debian package somehow, > and thus lose the transparency that orig.tar.gz brings? Or is there some > other solution to this that I haven't spotted?
I agree, the code should come in one big package. I have no idea how the Perl policy handles this case, though. You should check whether the big package needs to "Provide: libsnowball-swedish-perl" for all languages. If it is important for you that the original tarballs are preserved, you can put them inside an orig.tar.gz that you make. The tar.gz-inside-tar.gz approach looks a bit unclean, though... at the end of the day, this decision is up to you as the maintainer, the package pool contains examples of both re-tarred sources and tar.gz-inside-tar.gz. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯