On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 07:36:59PM +0100, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:28:11PM +0100, Ante Karamatić wrote:
> > On 01.03.2010 12:55, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> > 
> > > Why would you want to do this? Not implying that it's wrong, that
> > > could be a matter of preference, just interested in your
> > > motivation. BTW, the upstream rpm creates three packages:
> > > cluster-glue, libglue, libglue-dev.
> > 
> > During the procedure of moving cluster-glue to main component of Ubuntu, 
> > there was a requirement of splitting those libraries into different 
> > packages. I guess this could happen in Debian too.
> > 
> >  From the perspective that, in the future, there might be other programs 
> > that would like to, for example, utilize stonith functions but not lrm, 
> > having those libraries separated would be great.
> 
> Why was there a requirement? Making single packages for every
> single library seems like nonsense to me. stonith/lrm/clplumbing
> exist for years and I've never heard of anybody using just one or
> the other piece.
> 
> What would probably make sense is packaging stonith agents in a
> separate package.
> 
> > There are no strong reasons for this, it just seemed right thing to do. 
> > If upstream thinks this is not ok or false, I'd be ok with dropping this 
> > change.
> 
> So, unless you come up with more convincing arguments, yes, this
> upstream is against. I'd be happy to hear other opinions, of
> course.

I believe its a recommendation in Debian Policy somewhere
which lintian flags. But I agree that it doesn't seem
to be necessary in this case.

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