Re: Policy 12.3: should I rename?

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Jonas Smedegaard 

> Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (2016-07-23 18:58:37)
> > ]] Geert Stappers 
> >
> >> FWIW I agree with both '"main package "should have documentation' and 
> >> 'additional documentation in separate doc package'.
> >
> > I think we should stop recommending documentation be put in a separate 
> > package and tell people who don't want docs to exclude the relevant 
> > parts of /usr/share/doc using dpkg excludes instead.  Disk space is 
> > pretty cheap and we keep complaining about the per-package overhead in 
> > Packages.gz, so it should be a net gain for most people.
> 
> If I understand you correctly, it will be a loss for those where 
> bandwidth is expensive: Stripping documentation during install implied 
> it need to be downloaded.

Sure, but at the same time: docs tend to compress well, and people who
do development are more likely to run something up-to-date (like testing
or unstable) and so therefore are more likely to be able to handle the
bandwidth cost.

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