Hi Sjoerd, On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:05:31PM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > Package: xf86-input-wacom > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > Hey, > > New gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-control-center uses some of the header > files of xf86-input-wacom. It would be nice if the header files were split out > in a proper -dev package similar to e.g. xserver-xorg-input-evdev-dev.
So I was going to Just Do this, but looking at it in more detail now, I actually wonder what do we really gain? We'd split 4 headers and a .pc file into its own package, leaving behind an almost equally empty package, that also has just a couple of tiny files and some man pages. And double the boilerplate overhead, to almost compete with the size of the actual package ... The dependencies that the module package brings in don't seem huge either (especially not if we're talking about building something that depends on gnome ...). So aside from the basic rote logic of "this stuff should be in a -dev", I wonder what I'm missing that you see makes this a win? There doesn't seem to be any obvious downside to just having it all in a single package, but a number of upsides from the "avoiding unnecessary archive bloat" perspective ... Anyhow, I'm open to being convinced otherwise, but for now, I'm probably going to leave this as is for the next upload. > Attached patch does this splitout, although I want a bit overboard and moved > the package to debhelper 7 (v9) and dpkg source format 3 :) Yes, this I agree is overboard, sorry. I might still split out a -dev if you cluebat me with what I'm missing there, but I don't see changing these things as bringing any benefit at all ... Best, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
