[Hamara-devel] discussion about decreasing packaging overhead in debian

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting shirish (2015-11-18 16:53:26)
> Akshat [...] was of the opinion that rpm packaging was much more 
> cleaner, easier than Debian's. While I shared with him that in the 
> early days rpm packaging was hard and that is one of the reasons why 
> Debian came into play, packaging as well as apt and the upgrade 
> scenario.

Above seems to be about difficulty of mastering the art of packaging.


> [Debian] are open to bringing down the complexity quite a bit but need 
> somebody who can take charge of this.

Recent Debian thread was about size of metadata.

Reducing size of metadata may likely reduce its complexity - but not its 
difficulty.

E=mc² is small in size and simple in structre, yet difficult to master.


> So while its a great idea, would he be able to get couple of advocates 
> and 2-3 volunteers as that is what would be required to push something 
> like this which also helps overcome any expected or unexpected 
> push-back as well.
>
> @Jonas what is your view on the proposal shared above ?
>
> Any easier packaging process on Debian is also good for Hamara :)

Sorry, I lost your point in the wealth of information you provided.

What is the proposal, more concretely?  Package metadata size reduction, 
or something else related to _easing_ packaging?


 - Jonas

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