Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Addition of a new field <remote-id type="debian"> to metadata.xml

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On sob, 2017-06-03 at 03:22 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:51:25 +0200
> Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > ...so if a Gentoo package is split into 40 packages in Debian, are you
> > going to list all of them?
> 
> If it would be useful to do so, maybe.
> 
> But its a text file, people are capable of making judgements about
> adding 3.2k of text, I hope. ( worst-case, 40 lines of 80 characters each )
> 
> If the text at that size has a use, then, why not?
> 
> As long as that 40-package example is an exceptional case, where it was deemed
> useful, not the norm.

It's not that exceptional in binary distributions where it's normal to
split a single source into a few dozen packages (libraries, headers,
tools, plugins...):

https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/systemd

and that's a small one. I guess we could avoid this if you restricted
those remotes to the source package used to build them all.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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