HEADSUP MAINTAINERS: flat upload layout
Yaakov Selkowitz
yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 15 21:14:00 GMT 2014
On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 22:46 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
> That only really works for pure noarch packages of which there aren't
> all that many.
There are more than you think. In Ports, over 46% of the source
packages are completely noarch.
> As you say, this is doable today with not too much
> manual work. A larger benefit would be to split "normal" packages into
> their arch and noarch part (roughly, between executables and scripts and
> documentation).
This would result in a single package being uploaded into multiple
directories; I'm not sure how practical that would be to implement.
Yaakov
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