Re: echoping: New upstream release (but not obvious to package)

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:24:23 +0200
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer%nic.fr@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:53:51PM -0400,
>  Steven M. Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote 
>  a message of 30 lines which said:
> 
> > Generally, plug-ins are separate packages that depend on the base
> > package.
> 
> Isn't one package per plugin too much? echoping plugins are quite
> small. 
> 
I'd like options, personally, but then you can't have precompiled
binaries.

Perhaps one package for many plugins, though ones with major
dependencies should be separate.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb