stop to maitain rpm

[Mike Parker]

On Monday, 12 August 2013 at 15:39:59 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 12 August 2013 at 14:34:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> That's true. But, correct me if I'm wrong, rpms and the like 
>> are bundled independently of the original source repository. 
>> So a project relying solely on dub doesn't stop a package 
>> maintainer from keeping a separate build script to bundle with 
>> the rpm.
>
> Yeah, but imagine creating hard dependency on certain library 
> version in sources (with no real need, something like too 
> specific SONAME) - it requires package maintainer not only to 
> keep bundling script, but also to patch project sources before 
> building. Something maintainers are usually not happy to do :)
>
> It is not that common but forgetting that user environment will 
> be different from yours is kind of easier with all the 
> convenience `dub` brings you.
>
> In general I think keeping packager and developer duties 
> separate is a good/right thing, however, it is much easier when 
> developers think about binary dependencies separately from 
> source ones.

My view may indeed be heavily tinted by Windows, where this sort 
of thing just isn't an issue to care about. I suppose I'll have 
to adjust that a bit.