Hi Sam,

Thank you for the quick response.

On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 2:46 PM Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> So, the main reason we're using libev is that upstream krb5 uses libev.
> I think they do because libev is a smaller more self contained code base
> than libevent, and because honestly the KDC isn't normally a performance
> bottleneck, so it doesn't much matter.

Good point, size of code base also matters.

> That said, I think libverto in Debian should support all the options,
> and certainly should support libevent.
> That won't make things easier for Ubuntu really, if they want to avoid
> building libverto against libev, but it will let Debian users use
> libevent if that's what they want.

In general I agree with offering the choice, but in that particular
package's case I saw no prior indication of any user wanting to use
libverto-libevent1 rather than libverto-libev1. I see that you
maintain krb5, too. What advantage do you see in providing
libverto-libevent1, too, that would make the extra complexity worth
it? In fact maintaining the Ubuntu delta would become slightly more
complicated.

Cheers,
Balint

> I'd love a merge proposal that turns on libevent and leaves libev
> present, and will eventually try to get to that myself if you aren't
> interested in submitting that.


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Balint Reczey
Ubuntu & Debian Developer

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