[Tts-project] Speech feedback related packages

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Igor,

On 30-11-2023 04:51, Igor B. Poretsky via Tts-project wrote:
> Incidentally, he noted that the packages must not change their
> version until sponsored. Thus, I've returned the first version in all
> uploads.

I disagree with the "must". It something I would do too, but I know 
other people believe that every version released to the public (even via 
mentors) is a release, so the version is "used" in their view. Also...

> 1) There are issues that actually should be addressed on the upstream
> level. Of course, I can fix everything by the Debian patches, but is it
> a point if I am an upstream developer myself? On the other hand, a
> package should not change its version until sponsored.

... this is an extremely good reason to change the version. New upstream 
release to address issues in the right place.

> It turned out that a library package should be accompanied by a
> development package and should include nothing except the shared library
> itself.

The reason that this is the case is that we want different SONAME 
packages to be co-installable. If you ship files in a place that remains 
constant with a SONAME bump, that property gets lost. Creating a new 
package just to ship a configuration file seems a bit overkill. One of 
the challenges with configuration files is that during upgrades you need 
to honor changes made by the system administrator, including removal of 
the file. If you handle that correctly a bit of a hack could be to 
generate the configuration file during the first ever postinst (of any 
version of the SONAME), but you need to make sure you don't change it 
later except with the consent of the admin. I'm not sure if this is sane 
to do. You could also ship the configuration file in examples in both 
frontend packages and leave it to the admin to install it from there.

Paul
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