Bug#191804: marked as done (general: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright wastefully duplicated)
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Gentlemen, do
$ ls -og /usr/share/doc/*/copyright|sort -k 3n
Notice: all of the files have just a link count of 1 whereas there are
many that are just in fact the same file.
OK, at least some must be the same as /usr/share/common-licenses/*,
therefore they should simply be symlinked to there.
OK, at least they could be symlinked to the version of the license
that they use, if for some reason linking to "latest version" is not
good enough.
e.g. of
Directory /usr/share/common-licenses/
Artistic BSD GPL@ GPL-2 LGPL@ LGPL-2 LGPL-2.1
a package could link to GPL-2 if they felt that just linking to GPL
might misrepresent their feeling in the future.
I'm just trying to save bytes here and there.
Wait, maybe /usr/share/doc/fortunes-debian-hints/copyright is an
example of the smallest things can reasonably get. hmmm. ok.
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Subject: Re: Bug#191804: general: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright wastefully
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> Gentlemen, do
> $ ls -og /usr/share/doc/*/copyright|sort -k 3n
> Notice: all of the files have just a link count of 1 whereas there are
> many that are just in fact the same file.
Almost none of them should be duplicates. Go read a few of them, such as
the ones for bash, debian-policy, ash, apt, etc.=20
BTW: If you want to find places in /usr/share/doc that space could
really be saved, may I suggest the "fdupes" utility.
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