Repeated files in -doc packages

[Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot@riseup.net>]

Hi.

I noticed all -doc packages include some repeated files: plus.gif,
haddock-util.js, haskell-icon.gif, minus.gif and haddock.css.

In ghc6-doc there're a lot of them, as can be seen in
http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=haddock-util.js&mode=path&suite=unstable&arch=any .

I've made this simple script to check if the files have the same
content, and they have:

#!/bin/sh

set -e

[ "$1" = "" ] && echo USAGE: $0 FILE && false

files=`dpkg -S $1 | grep -e ghc -e haskell | cut -d\  -f2`
nfiles=`echo $files | wc -w`

file()
{
    echo $files | cut -d\  -f$1
}

for i in `seq $nfiles`
do
    for j in `seq $((i + 1)) $nfiles`
    do
        diff -q `file $i` `file $j`
    done
done

Should we do something about it?

Greetings.

-- 
marcot
http://marcot.iaaeee.org/