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On Montag, 9. Juni 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> * Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@g.o> schrieb: |
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> Hi, |
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> > This post is about how to create a nice upgrade path when merging two |
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> > packages. |
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> > The packages I care about are |
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> > media-plugins/vdr-streamdev-{client,server}, that we wanted to merge into |
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> > one media-plugins/vdr-streamdev package. |
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> please, please, don't do at it all. |
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> Server vs. clients things should really be separated, and if there's |
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> shared code between them (eg. proto headers), it should belong to |
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> another package. We've already got enough blowed-up, fat packages. |
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> Same with the -client / -server useflags: they're just a work around |
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> for certain upstream's crap design - if they really understood the |
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> concept named "client-server-model", we'd have clean lines and wouldn't |
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> need this at all. |
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> Actually, I didn't check whether the upstream did this mixup or just |
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> you, so I won't accuse you for that ;P. If it's the upstream's fault, |
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> please try to stop them. |
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> Yes, I know Gentoo's policy is to stay as near to upstream as |
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> possible, but there should be a limit. Upstream quality can range |
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> widely, from excellent to crap. Please try to keep the overall |
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> quality as high as possible and leave out the crap. |
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Well, upstream is just one file/package: vdr-streamdev-0.3.4.tgz |
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All other distros (that I know of) still have only one package for |
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vdr-streamdev. |
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Only gentoo has split this into the client and server parts. |
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But we want to revert this now, because splitting leads to more maintainance |
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effort as both ebuilds are almost the same. |
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Regards |
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Matthias |
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