Quoting Dmitry E. Oboukhov (2026-02-03 15:52:59) > 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.
Did you count how many Debian source packages cover more than one upstream project? No need for a Policy change to permit that - see e.g. src:hx, which (in addition to upstream Rust-based hx project) also pulls in termina and tree-house. Or src:node-jsdom, which handles some 20-30 NodeJS-based libraries. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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