A bit of statistics for consideration. In Debian/trixie there are currently 68,756 packages (I just downloaded and counted). Of those, 11,877 are libraries that have exactly one reverse dependency. That is 17% of the effort that could have been spent on something else. And users would notice no difference if all those packages were bundled into the one package they exist for.
I am not saying "we should do it this way". I am saying it would be good to explicitly allow that "it can be done this way", and sometimes (when upstream is opposed to separate packaging) it may even be the right thing to do. -- . ''`. Dmitry E. Oboukhov <[email protected]> : :’ : <[email protected]> `. `~’ work: <[email protected]> `- 71ED ACFC 6801 0DD9 1AD1 9B86 8D1F 969A 08EE A756
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