Re: ANN: GNUstep GUI 0.26.1

[Yavor Doganov]

В Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:31:34 +1100, Svetlana Tkachenko написа:

> On a source based distro configuration options are exposed to the
> users but on Debian they are not and they may need to be separate
> packages.

We can build multiple binary packages from one source package.  This
was David's point, I think.  If GUI and Back were distributed
together in a single tarball, it would be entirely possible, in theory
and in practice, Debian to provide the same set of binary packages.

It's a matter of evaulating which approach is better.  In Debian,
large source packages with many binary packages are frowned upon as
they tend to get more complex, more likely to get entangled in library
transitions and add to the workload of the security team and the
buildd network.

But it shouldn't matter what Debian prefers.