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Re: Separate lib and executable packages?

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On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 11:36:00AM +0000, Gordon Ball wrote:
> I wonder if this split really makes sense; it feels like adding the
> overhead of an extra binary package to avoid not having a very small
> file in /usr/bin if you're only planning to use the library.
> 
> Does it seem reasonable to drop the executable package and just make it
> a Provides: of the library package? (and is there any potential breakage
> here that I'm overlooking)


Maybe not for ipython3, since that's very much tied to python3-ipython3.

BUT, as a user (even forgetting I'm also a DD) I was hurt many times by
executables in python-foo but wanting to use python3-foo instead, or by
executables that moved from python-foo to python3-foo and I had to fix
my own deployments, and whatnot.

We are not going to have a python4 anytime soon (hopefully never), but I
think that keeping a separate binary package makes sense for almost all
cases I can think of packages shipping executables under /usr/bin/.

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Separate lib and executable packages? Gordon Ball <gordon@chronitis.net> - 2020-02-07 12:50 +0100
  Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2020-02-07 13:50 +0100
  Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2020-02-07 17:10 +0100
    Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2020-02-08 04:20 +0100
      Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2020-02-08 14:00 +0100
        Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2020-02-08 15:30 +0100
      Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Gordon Ball <gordon@chronitis.net> - 2020-02-08 21:00 +0100
        Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2020-02-08 21:20 +0100
          Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Gordon Ball <gordon@chronitis.net> - 2020-02-11 11:00 +0100
        Re: Separate lib and executable packages? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2020-02-09 04:10 +0100

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