[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: [debian] Packaging of RSSKit/RSS Reader

[Damyan Ivanov]

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Yavor Doganov wrote:
> [BG Debian Group CCed as the folks there might give some advice too.]
Here it comes :)

> In an attempt to resolve RC bug #385239 [1] I took a deeper look into
> the newest upstram tarball [2].  It seems to me that the things are
> much more complicated than the first impression I got.
> 
> RSS Reader links to the newest RSSKit library (framework in GNUstep's
> terminology), which resides at the RSSKit directory in that tarball.
> This means that we have to package rsskit.framework as a separate
> source package and let the new rssreader.app build-depend on
> librsskit-dev.

1. Why split source packages? Why not simply produce three binary
packages from the same source?

2. Why separate library package?
If librsskit is not for public use (by other packages) then I see no
value for separate library packages (librsskit0 and -dev). If librsskit
is to be used only by rssreader, then make librsskit0.so installed
somewhere in /usr/lib/rssreader and possibly link rssreader with it
using an rpath.

3. Reading the bug log, I'd go for package rename. Mentioning the old
name in the description would make the new package findable via
apt-cache search...


dam
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