On 2022-01-15 Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "byacc":
> * Package name : byacc > Version : 1:2.0.20220114-1 > Upstream Author : <[email protected]> (Thomas E. Dickey) > * URL : https://invisible-island.net/byacc/ > * License : GPL-3, public-domain, other-BSD > * Vcs : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/byacc > Section : devel > It builds those binary packages: > byacc - public domain Berkeley LALR Yacc parser generator > byacc2 - public domain Berkeley LALR Yacc parser generator, with > back-tracking [...] Hello Thomas, I would like to question the introduction of another binary package: * "byacc2" seems to be a (newly introduced) Debiansm. Googling for "byacc2" only finds links related to this RFS. * The packages are tiny (about 100k) and have no conflicting files. /usr/bin/byacc2 and /usr/bin/byacc could be shipped in on binary package. * Is the double compilation/binary necessary? - Is /usr/bin/byacc2 incompatible with /usr/bin/byacc2? A quick glance at the yacc.1 seems to suggests that /usr/bin/byacc2 is a backward compatible extension of /usr/bin/byacc the only difference being that it additionally supports | -B create a backtracking parser cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
