Re: RFC: optional explicit mapping between orig component name and subdirectory

Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Dec 2025 04:33:35 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

On Thu, 2025-12-04 at 13:52:00 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I guess after skimming over the archive for the majority of addon
> tarball users, I don't think I've seen much of a need for this
> remapping support (to be clear not denying there is going to be
> cases where it applies, it just feels like that might be a minor
> set?), and I'm not thrilled about adding such extension that is going
> to be backwards incompatible.

To clarify, backwards incompatible is not necessarily a blocker,
but I think ones that can imply either silent breakage or misbuilds
would be a different thing (compared to a failure to unpack).

Thanks,
Guillem