Re: Generally accepted cut-off limit for -doc packages

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> On 5 May 2003, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>> James has chosen to set the cut-off point at 500kb, which is
>> reasonable.
[...]
>> I should just accept his decision.
> I really do not have problems to accept James's decision.  I'm just
> asking for a piece of documentation.  If new maintainers try to do
> a good job and will be pushed against their head I do not regard this
> as a very good introduction.  If debian-policy is not the right place
> for this documentation we should maintain a document with "ftpmaintainers
> preferences" or whatever.

Personally I'd look for this information in developers' reference and
would suggest submitting a wishlist bug-report (with patch if
possible) against it.

I might take a shot at it myself.
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-doc co \
  ddp/manuals.sgml/developers-reference
                 cu andreas