Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * David Bateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-12 10:00]: > > >> [...] Also I believe distributions like Debian would prefer to deal is a >> monolithic tar-ball rather than individual source packages and so even if >> the individual packages were released independently, there would probably >> remain a need for the monolithic releases. >> > > We (the Debian Octave Group) have already moved towards the release of > individual packages. There is still a monolithic octave-forge package for > octave2.1, though. It will be present in the next release of Debian (code > name lenny) but will be dropped afterwards. > > Sorry slight misstatement on my part, from what I've seen with the distributions packaging octave-forge with RPMs the tendency is to have a single source RPM with a single SPEC file that creates all of the individual packages. Therefore the source package has the octave-forge package tar-ball in it rather than the individual packages... I don't think they want 50 or more individual source packages. Sorry I don't know how debian packages things.
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