On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
And I don't know if you already thought on this, but maybe dialign-t could be split into dialign-t and dialign-t-data (lintian says that 98% of the package are arch-independent files).It would save aproximately 10 Mo on each mirror, so why not? In that case, I think that we should keep the doc in the main package. It is only 112 Ko and I have mixed feelings in having the doc in a -data package. Also, Dialign will not run without the -data package, because one of the big files that it contains is used by default. Therefore, we will have to depend on it.
Separating arch-independent files into a -data package is a really
good idea and if even lintian says so you definitely should. (I remember
a time when I had to discuss with ftp-master about my decision to
split arch-independent data ...)
In which package the doc should go is sometimes hard to decide. If
you really need a strong "Depends" from the data package the doc
could savely go to the data package as well. Because the -data
package should not have a Depends on the binary package (to avoid
circular depends) you might even have more chances to get the doc
installed if it is inside the data package - if you like this, leave
it there.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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