On 11/02/2016 02:04 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > There have been various efforts to aggregate tiny packages together into > larger packages in the past. I'm familiar with some of those efforts on > the Perl team. My impression is that, in every case where upstream was > not doing the same aggregation, the result has been somewhere between > uncomfortably awkward and a disaster.
We have an even worse situation with nagios-plugins-contrib - various upstreams, various (often weird) download locations and a mix plugins from single tiny scripts to stuff that uses automake, flex and others to build plugins. The solution was a bit of python code, a generic makefile and we even have a 'uscan' replacement. The gory details are described in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bzed/pkg-nagios-plugins-contrib/master/debian/README.source in case you're interested. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F