Proposal: separate out gettext-tools from the main package

[Sundeep Anand]

Hi,

This proposal[1] is to extract the heavier part "tools" from the gettext main package into a separate sub-package.
Inline with upstream packaging hints[2].

pros: smaller footprint of the gettext main package.
cons: a large numbers of packagers may get affected directly or indirectly. 
(may require some initial changes)

thoughts? they are very welcome.

thanks,
sundeep

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gettext/pull-request/15
[2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=blob;f=PACKAGING;h=f4ba...

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 09:04:31AM -0000, Sundeep Anand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This proposal[1] is to extract the heavier part "tools" from the gettext main package into a separate sub-package.
> Inline with upstream packaging hints[2].
>
> pros: smaller footprint of the gettext main package.
> cons: a large numbers of packagers may get affected directly or indirectly. 
> (may require some initial changes)
>
> thoughts? they are very welcome.

I think this is reasonable. gettext is directly required by a
not-too-large number of packages, but grub2-tools is one of them. If
its dependency is reduced from ~5 MB to ~0.8 MB, we'll get this saving
on most normal installations.

I'd say go for it, make sure that both packages are installed on upgrades (*),
and publicize the change to all affected packagers.

(*) I.e. both packages after the split should have Obsoletes on the old
package with a version before the split.

Zbyszek