[PD-dev] working towards Pd-0.40.3-extended

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> the only reasoning behind the .deb is to get the dependencies right.
> apart from that, i agree to frank.
> 
> one hack to solve this would be to distribute pd-extended as .tgz and
> additionally provide a "pd-extended-deps" package (which conforms to the
> debian standards)
> 
> or make the pd-extended package be standard-compliant, but install to
> /usr/lib/pd-extended/ rather than /usr/lib/pd

I think, the latter is the better option ... and use
/usr/bin/pd-extended as binary name.

Dropping debs for autobuilds may be a bit too harsh, but they really
don't make much sense to me for just testing stuff. And as Hans
mentioned, even as a general distribution package, the debs still need
a lot of work to evolve from their quick hack status. However this
work IMO would have to include splitting into subpackages, if alone
because it's too risky that something will deinstall the full
pd-extended shebang when some package it depends on changes, which
could happen every day in the Debian world.

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__