On 15/01/25 17:43, Sam Hartman wrote:
My proposal is to move the man pages into libpam-doc. I'm not actually convinced that normal Debian users need man pages for all the pam modules on all Debian systems, and a suggests relationship should be sufficient.
Unrelated to the question at hand, but I was wondering: why doesn't d/control contain a "Documentation:" field?
Currently, -doc packages are linked via the Depends, Recommends or Suggests field:
226 Depends
1656 Recommends
3408 Suggests
(For the record: about half of the Depends cases are -doc packages
depending on other -doc packages.)
Instead of debating the fine details of Recommends vs Suggests, I'd say it would be better to take the declarative way and explicitly state what the relation between foo and foo-doc is: `Documentation`.
Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci