On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:57:13PM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2018-01-04 16:12]: > > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:34:31PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > > Currently we have 3 doc packages for octave, that ship the same > > > material under different formats: - octave-doc: PDF format, > > > compressed deb ~5Mb, unpacked ~5.4Mb - octave-htmldoc: HTML format, > > > compressed deb ~1.5Mb, unpacked ~12.5Mb - octave-info: info format, > > > compressed deb ~1Mb, unpacked ~1Mb > > > > > > I think we should merge all of them into a single package > > > (octave-doc), the gain space is very small for someone who wants > > > only one format, and somebody installing documentation packages is > > > unlikely to be space-constrained (it's clearly not an embedded > > > system). > > > > > > Moreover, that would simplify the presentation of the documents in > > > the doc-base system, because the user manual has two entries in the > > > system (one for PDF, one for HTML), while it would make more sense > > > to have only one entry (showing the two formats for the same > > > document, as is possible with doc-base). The same applies to the > > > library/developers' manual. > > > > > > octave-htmldoc and octave-info would become transitional packages, > > > dropped after buster is released. > > > > > > Is that ok with you? > > > > I forgot to add that, since octave-info is currently recommended by > > octave (because it is needed by the help browser in the GUI), my > > proposal would mean that all the documentation would now be installed by > > default (unless one does not install the Recommends by default). > > > > So the typical octave installation would grow by 18Mb (which is rather > > small compared to the size of all dependencies, IIRC a previous thread). > > Ok for me. Thanks, I pushed that change. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ http://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ http://www.debian.org
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