Bug#630938: please make /usr/share/doc/multiarch-support/ a symlink

[Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org>]

On 21/06/2011 12:23, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 02:12:35AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> multiarch-support depends on libc6, so /usr/share/doc/multiarch-support/
>> can be a symlink to /usr/share/doc/libc6/ : we can and should save 150
>> KB on every Debian system.
> 
> I don't think it is something possible. multiarch-support doesn't
> depends on an exact version of libc6 (and it is actually the goal of
> this package), so there is no way to ensure the changelog is the right
> one.

If the goal is to save space, multiarch-support can have a much smaller
changelog (ie restrict the changelog to the relevant part for this
package). This can be done by having a separate source package if including
(the relevant) changelog part of the source package instead of the whole
changelog is not allowed by policy.

  Regards,
    Vincent