On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 07:14:50AM -0800, tony mancill wrote: >... > This is similar to my original proposal for 1029476, except I was merely > switching all of the arch-all packages to arch-any. I can confirm that > that approach builds correctly and the package installs and can be > upgraded. It has the disadvantage of using more space on the mirrors > and also a bit more time on the buildd machines, since the arch-all bits > are duplicated.
Mirror space should not be a worry anymore (that was different in the 1990s), I remember that something needed fixing when we had the first file > 2 GB (some .orig.gz) in our archive a few years ago. Regarding buildd time, you might never have heard about the acl2 package - except if you are looking at buildd.debian.org a lot since this is a package that takes literally a week to build on some buildds. Developer time is usually the most scarce resource in Debian. > The advantage to your proposal of a single package is that it would also > resolve the build issue, be be a bit simpler for users, and also make it > easier for us to add new modules, since the package wouldn't have to go > back through the NEW queue. The disadvantage would be the same in terms > of space, but more importantly that installing tuxguitar would require > installing the transitive dependencies of all of the plugins. I assume > they are all co-installable, but I can imagine bug reports from ALSA or > OSS users not wanting to have to install jack libraries. >... I would be worried if a plugin does weird things by default if installed. FFmpeg already pulls in jack libraries, Debian is not a distribution that tries hard to reduce the number of unused libraries on a system. > Cheers, > tony cu Adrian
