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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting shirish (2015-11-18 18:21:38)
> On 11/18/2015 10:11 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> What is the proposal, more concretely?  Package metadata size 
>> reduction, or something else related to _easing_ packaging?
>
> I was under the impression it was both, but yeah even metadata size 
> reduction would be good news for Debian mirrors and perhaps derivative 
> distributions also ?

Ok.

Generally I sure welcome any and all involvement in Debian.

Specifically for reducing metadata size, but I expect it to be one of 
the more difficult tasks and likely one of the less beneficial ones.

Regarding RPM versus DEB, I strongly suspect¹ that a) package _formats_ 
are equally easy/difficult to master, but b) Debian _Policy_ sets a 
higher bar than common in Fedora-derived systems.  In other words: 
Creating a .deb package can be easy if you don't care about its quality.


 - Jonas

¹ I haven't used RPM-based systems at all in current millenium.

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