Bug#233392: Inefficient packaging of arch independent data in package libc6

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:34:07 -0500,
Joey Hess wrote:
> Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >   * Some packages need to have a -common or -doc package split out to
> >     contain this common data, and the existing packages that need this
> >     data should then be altered to depend on the new -common or -doc
> >     package.
> 
> If you give in to this bug report, please excersise sanity and do not
> name the resulting package libc6-common. One genuinely useful split
> would be to move the zoneinfo data (5.4 mb) to its own package, as that
> is not needed on many small dedicated servers. There is an existing bug
> asking for that.

I don't think spliting zoneinfo is useful.

(1) If zoneinfo is set as "required", then at last we need to install
    libc6 and zoneinfo on general machine.

(2) I think even on many small dedicated servers, they need to handle
    "time".  And if such servers has no need to care for "time", the
    package system is even meaningless on them.

So I would like to reject it.  Any comments?

Regards,
-- gotom