Splitting a package--reviews needed?
Quentin Spencer
qspencer at ieee.org
Thu Aug 2 15:48:50 UTC 2007
I am the maintainer of octave-forge, a set of add-on packages for
octave. The structure of the source package has been changed to separate
it into a number of sub-packages. I think it would be a good idea to
follow this structure in the Fedora package, particularly since some
sub-packages have external dependencies that not all users may really
need. The octave-forge package would become a meta-package that just
installs all of the sub-packages. The question here is, should each of
the new sub-packages be subject to its own review? It's a total of
almost 40 packages, considerably more than I currently maintain, and I'm
worried that this will significantly increase the time commitment, which
I'm not sure I can do. Is there anyone out there who has a particular
interest in any of the octave-forge sub-packages who may be interested
in maintaining it?
Quentin
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