Hello! On Fri 28 Oct 2005 22:20 +0200, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
On Friday 28 October 2005 13:45, Luca Capello wrote:
[splitting packages] is this a normal way of doing things? if so this is what i'd do.
While it's an usual thing to split a -doc package, I think that for the test suite there isn't a strict policy
Well the policy gets involved because you should have a separate package if the architecture independent part (/usr/share/foo) gets 'too big'. <cut> Another reason to split a package is when a part is not always needed. For example slime is not slime (client) and cl-swank (server) parts because it is possible to run the swank on another machine then the client.
Both cases do not seem to apply in this case: the lisp package is architecture independent by nature and the documentation is useless without the package.
Analyzing Marco's code and checking back the discussion Marco and I had when I first packaged YACLML, I now remember the problem (because there's a problem, sorry)... To read the documentation, you need qbook. To compile qbook, however, you need YACLML. This is the main reason I put qbook as a suggestion, because it's not *strictly* necessary, but it could be useful. And this situation applies to any other Marco's package: 1) arnesi compiles alone (without any other Marco's software) depends on FiveAM for :arnesi.test depends on cl-ppcre for :arnesi.cl-ppcre-extras depends on qbook for the docs 2) FiveAM compiles with arnesi depends on qbook for the docs 3) qbook compiles with arnesi, iterate, cl-ppcre and yaclml 4) YACLML compiles with arnesi and iterate depends on FiveAM for :yaclml.test depends on qbook for the docs Please someone corrects me if I forgot something. And my idea for the debianization: 1) arnesi depends on clc (in Debian this implies cl-asdf) recommends FiveAM, cl-ppcre and qbook 2) FiveAM depends on clc and arnesi recommends qbook 3) qbook depends on clc, arnesi, iterate, cl-ppcre and yaclml 4) YACLML depends on clc, arnesi and iterate recommends FiveAM and qbook Moreover, I can add on the package description (or in the README.Debian) why the recommendations, to advice the user of the other functionalities. Or, another solution which is straightforward, we don't have any Recommends/Suggests, but only Depends (cl-ppcre takes 100K and iterate 265K). BTW, the packages are ready, this is the last problem ;-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca