Re: Maybe it's time to split debian-devel-changes
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Ok, second proposal:
The "distributed", non i386-centric one:
The debian-devel-changes is renamed to debian-devel-changes-i386, and an
announcement is sent explaining the goal of the new list.
There would be the following lists:
a) debian-devel-changes-<arch> for every <arch>.
b) debian-devel-changes-source.
And the announcement policy would be:
* Every time an upload includes any package which may be used by <arch>,
it should be announced in debian-devel-changes-<arch>. This includes
arch-independent uploads, i.e. every time the dinstall program installs
a file *or a symlink* in the binary-<arch> directory, there is an
announcement for it.
* Every time an upload contains source of any kind, it should be
announced in debian-devel-changes-source also, i.e. every time the
dinstall program installs a new file in any of the "source" directories,
there is an announcement for it.
Benefits:
* Users of the <arch> architecture would have to subscribe *only*
to the debian-devel-changes-<arch> list (convenience for the users as a
primary goal).
* Although a binary-all upload would be announced in seven lists,
this is not a waste of bandwidth, because subscribers of the different
debian-devel-changes-<arch> lists would normally not overlap.
* Developers looking for new source packages would have to be subscribed
to just one list also, debian-devel-changes-source.
* Most "source i386" uploads would go both to the debian-devel-changes-i386
list and to the debian-devel-changes-source list. This, again, is not such
a waste of bandwidth, considering that the number of subscribers
of debian-devel-changes-source would be really low.
Please, accompany your objections with a more better proposal :-)
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