[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: [debian] Packaging of RSSKit/RSS Reader

[Yavor Doganov]

Дамян Иванов wrote:
> 
> 1. Why split source packages? Why not simply produce three binary
> packages from the same source?

Because RSS Reader will FTBFS if RSSKit is not installed.

> 2. Why separate library package?
> If librsskit is not for public use (by other packages) then I see no
> value for separate library packages (librsskit0 and -dev). If librsskit
> is to be used only by rssreader, then make librsskit0.so installed
> somewhere in /usr/lib/rssreader and possibly link rssreader with it
> using an rpath.

Currently it is used only by RSS Reader, but in the future it might be
used by PlopFolio (and other apps not yet written).

> 3. Reading the bug log, I'd go for package rename. Mentioning the old
> name in the description would make the new package findable via
> apt-cache search...

I plan to do the reverse since that is the maintainer's preference.
I'll keep the name as rssreader.app and I'll mention the new name in
the long description.  It is arguable whether Grr is in fact a new
name, though.

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