Please note out that while `taxy' and `taxy-magit-section' are both
developed in "taxy.el.git", they are in separate branches, so there is
no need to build the two packages from a single set of files by
excluding some files and then the others.
Oops, I just wrote a quick script that compared URLs but did not check
what :branch they are developed on.
I've chosen to keep these packages in the same repo because they are
so closely related. I'd like to be able to keep this arrangement.
That is totally fine, would you mind sharing your setup, in case someone
else is interested in this approach as well?
Having said that, while I wouldn't personally object to dropping
support for building multiple packages from a single branch (since I
don't do it myself), I wouldn't favor doing so, because existing
packages do, and it would create more work for the authors to have to
split them up.
That is the issue, and I certainly don't want to be the one to blame for
breakage, be it for package developers let alone users.
Maybe it would be reasonable to make a new policy against building
multiple packages from a single branch, while "grandfathering" in the
existing packages that do so, if it would solve a problem for ELPA.
What do you mean by "grandfathering"?