[Pkg-isocodes-devel] isoquery?

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Tobias Toedter (t.toedter at gmx.net):

> sorry for the long silence, I've been on vacation for two weeks.
> 
> About isoquery: Thanks for checking this into SVN, I should probably
> have done that many months ago. However, I've been working on a new
> version, which fixes some problems with the current one. So please do
> not change much in the SVN version, I'll commit the most current
> version as soon as possible. We can then work together on the remaining
> issues.
> 
> About a Debian package for the program: Should we just include the
> source code in iso-codes and install the binary together with
> iso-codes, or should we create a separate .deb?


I have no strong advice, indeed.

A separate source package would make it simpler to create new versions
and upload them without also updating the big iso-codes package. It
would also still allow releasing new versions of the source package
during freezes as iso-codes alone is a "translation-only"
package. That would even allow iso-codes to be used on
volatile.debian.org (I think it qualifies well for it).

A joined source package would allow providing the utility along with
the data, particularly in "upstream" releases, which could be more
convenient for other distros if they use our "software".

I'm slightly more in favor of a separate package, indeed.


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