[cl-debian] Re: [Bese-devel] YACLML: debianization

[Peter Van Eynde]

Hi people,

On Friday 28 October 2005 13:45, Luca Capello wrote:
> > [splitting packages]
> > is this a normal way of doing things? if so this is what i'd do.
>
> While it's an usual thing to split a -doc package, I think that for
> the test suite there isn't a strict policy

Well the policy gets involved because you should have a separate package if 
the architecture independent part (/usr/share/foo) gets 'too big'.

This resulted in the splitting of sbcl into sbcl and sbcl-doc for example.

Another reason to split a package is when a part is not always needed. For 
example slime is not slime (client) and cl-swank (server) parts because it is 
possible to run the swank on another machine then the client.

Both cases do not seem to apply in this case: the lisp package is architecture 
independent by nature and the documentation is useless without the package.

Groetjes, Peter

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