[Libosinfo] [osinfo-db-tools 0/2] Start new osinfo-db-tools package

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 05:35:15PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> Thanks for the very long explanation (I especially appreciated the
>> ascii-art diagram) but I don't quite agree.
>>
>> While I don't see any harm in -db not depending on libosinfo, I really
>> don't see the benefit of going as far as to providing a separate
>> package for db tools. The -db does not necessarily be only data
>> either. I'd just keep the tools in -db or libosinfo and avoid the
>> maintenance and packaging headache.
>
> Actually I think it would make maintenance easier because it avoids
> tieing together things that would naturally evolve seprately. For
> example, there could be cases where a distro would want to update
> the DB management tools, but not pull in a new library version,
> or vica-verca. Letting these things evolve separately with their
> own release schedules will make life simpler for people consuming
> them, as they won't be faced with mutually exclusive decisions about
> which updates to pull in if they want to rebase some parts but not
> others.
>
> This may not sound like a big deal when all osinfo-db-tools contains
> is a couple of command line tools for validate & unpacking archives,
> but I've mentioned ideas before about providing tools to periodically
> query & download updated database version, so the osinfo-db-tools
> package is likely to gain more functionality & complexity over time.
> So I think over the long term the split will be beneficial to all
> involved.

But why are we being religious about "no code in -db" package?

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)