[Pkg-roundcube-maintainers] Comments regarding roundcube-plugin-authres-status_0.6.2+dfsg-1~exp_amd64.changes

[Guilhem Moulin]

Hi Thorsten,

On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 at 09:08:41 +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> is there a reason why you want to have an extra package for each plugin?

Mostly to facilitate upstream version tracking via d/watch.  They are
different unrelated upstream projects with different authors, licenses, and
release pace, and the roundcube-plugins-extra's current multi-component orig
files has been difficult to work with which unfortunately has led to plugins
falling out of date.  roundcube-skin-* also got their own source package after
upstream moved the old themes out of the core repository for the 1.6 release.

Moreover splitting provides users tighter dependency control; some plugins
have specific requirements on the minimum Roundcube version, others depend on
a specific software or library, etc.  (But of course keeping a single source
package with multiple binary packages would also address that latter concern.)

Cheers,
-- 
Guilhem.
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