Josip Rodin wrote: > Is there any particular reason why this isn't Cc:ed to the BTS? :) >
We've already been discussing this on debian-x without the BTS in CC in the last days. > One thing that I would add is that it's not clear whether this would be a > source+binary split, or just binary. I went looking upstream, and noticed > that these programs are each in their own subtree under > git.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/ (list visible at http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/ > ) > xbase-clients currently appears to be a semi-random subset of those. > Right now, I think the plan was to keep a single source and only split the binary package. > Given that these days both the drivers and the libraries are split, I think > that we would actually do the world a service if we stopped scheming how to > bump several programs into a smaller number of packages, and just Xu'ed the > whole thing. Pseudo-packages can exist to bump associated binary packages > together for the users' benefit, but there's no real reason to keep anything > else together. > Maintenance cost is actually a real reason here. More source packages implies more work to do, but it does unfortunately not imply more people and time to do it :/ Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
