[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-interval 1.2.0-1

[Oliver Heimlich]

On 07.10.2015 22:43, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le mercredi 07 octobre 2015 à 21:34 +0200, Oliver Heimlich a écrit :
>> The interval package is now ready for its initial upload to the
>> Debian
>> archives. Please upload the current git revision
>> (57e4abc44e67c805aa2fe4898c6c465f53b066ca).
> 
> Olivier, thanks for your work!
> 
> Just two points before uploading:
> 
> - in debian/copyright, you should add a stanza for "debian/*" files.
> For the time being, it would have the same copyright information than
> the "*" stanza, so technically this is not strictly needed. But it is
> good practice to separate the stanza for the debian subdir, since it
> comes from a different source than the rest of the package, and
> packagers are usually different from upstream authors

Ok, I will add that part. Thanks for checking this.

> - is the separation in two packages really necessary? My understanding
> is that separating arch-indep files is only warranted for big packages,
> because it saves space on the Debian ftp servers. In the present case,
> given that the package is small, I don't think that the overhead
> created by a separate -common package is warranted. I think it just
> adds complexity for no benefit. Or am I missing something?

It's absolutely fine to have a single package and this is also easier
because you do not have the dependency trouble between the two (one
would never use one without the other).

The only benefit would be to save some bytes, because the arch-dep part
would be small. AFAIK, there is no other reason to separate the two.

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