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Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream

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On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 09:26:33PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
>your subject suggests that you are looking for a solution for huge upstream
>packages in general but reading your mail I get the feeling that you are
>looking for a solution for src:linux specifically?

The Linux kernel is probably the most prominent example of this use case 
and I can't come up with another package that has this kind of 
complexity, but I actually tried to take a few steps back from the 
kernel and to look at the challenge from a more general point of view. 
That didn't work though.

>I'd also like to mention that a lot of things have changed in this department
>recently. For example, the toml config format was only introduced in kernel
>version 6.7 and more and more things have recently become configurable via
>toml.

The last time I looked at the Debian kernel packaging was 20 years ago. 
Glad to hear that things have become simpler.

Greetings
Marc


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Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2025-07-18 22:20 +0200
  Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream Ahmad Khalifa <ahmad@khalifa.ws> - 2025-07-18 22:30 +0200
    Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream Ahmad Khalifa <ahmad@khalifa.ws> - 2025-07-18 22:50 +0200
    Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream Bastien Roucaries <rouca@debian.org> - 2025-07-18 23:50 +0200
  Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2025-07-18 23:30 +0200
    Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2025-07-18 23:50 +0200
  Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> - 2025-07-19 03:40 +0200
  Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org> - 2025-07-19 21:30 +0200
    Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2025-07-25 20:20 +0200
  Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2025-07-20 20:20 +0200
  Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2025-07-25 20:20 +0200

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