Re: [PATCH 3/6] package.bbclass, package_ipk.bbclass: add dynamic depends on locale packages (ipk specific)

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>]

Phil Blundell <pb@reciva.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:38 -0600, Mike (mwester) wrote:
>> Phil Blundell wrote:
>> > This looks like it will add locale dependencies to all the subpackages
>> > (e.g. foo-doc, foo-dev and the like) as well as the main "foo" package,
>> > which is a bit different to how the old code used to work.  But I guess
>> > that's harmless enough: the worst effect will be to bloat the Packages
>> > file a bit, and I doubt anybody will care too much.  So, thumbs up from
>> > me.
>> 
>> How much bloat? 
>
> For a source package "foo", you'd be talking about adding one copy of
> the literal string "foo-locale-*" to the Depends line for each of its
> subpackages (foo-doc, foo-dev, foo-dbg and the like).  The exact amount
> obviously depends on the length of the package name, but I guess you
> could call it about 16 bytes per binary package as a rough
> approximation.
>
> Exactly what the real-world impact of that would be will depend on your
> distro policy.  If you already strip out the -dev and -doc packages from
> the main Packages feed then obviously the impact will be virtually nil
> because most of the affected packages won't be there in the first place.
> At the other extreme, if your Packages files currently contain
> everything from the control data (including Source:, Description: and so
> on) then they are probably so huge already that another sixteen bytes
> per package is negligible in percentage terms.
>
> If those 16*n bytes did turn out to cause a problem for someone then it
> probably wouldn't be that hard to reinstate the original behaviour of
> only adding this dependency on the primary binary.

Now I have two good points and I'm uncertain where to go :-)

Push it and sort the regressions out depending how hard is it or make it
optional?

-- 
        O T A V I O    S A L V A D O R
---------------------------------------------
 E-mail: otavio@debian.org      UIN: 5906116
 GNU/Linux User: 239058     GPG ID: 49A5F855
 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br
---------------------------------------------
"Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives
 you the whole house."