[csw-maintainers] Handling of devel package splits

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Thu Oct 1 11:35:41 CEST 2009


Hi,

Am 01.10.2009 um 09:23 schrieb Dagobert Michelsen:
> I am currently packaging up a load of X11 packages. Some of them
> have a load of development-stuff (headers, etc.) in them, some
> only a few header files. I tend to split off the development stuff
> for all of them in _devel-packages for consistency, but as we don't
> have an explicit policy on this I would like to open up a small
> discussion if you would consider it feasible to split even for
> a few files for consistency. The alternative would be to split
> on a "by case" basis where some packages with many header files
> would have a devel package and some would include them in the
> base package.
>
> After a brief discussion I would like to open a poll for this.

As we already had some discussion on IRC, here is the poll:
   <http://doodle.com/2e8eakee997gtmmv>


Best regards

   -- Dago



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