Re: tar files in example dirs

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> > And yes, I realise you were talking about real documentation in
> > /usr/doc/*/*.tar.gz. Now, that's something different, and maybe
> > the maintainers should think again about those tarfiles. But
> > on the bases of those "doc.tar.gz" files you wanted policy to be
> > changed to the effect of not allowing .tar.gz in /usr/doc. That I
> >  think is wrong.
> 
> yes, I'm talking about documentation in tar.gz.
> On the bases of those "doc.tar.gz" files I want policy to be changed to
> the effect of not allowing documentation files in .tar.gz 
> ---------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> does this sound better?

It sounds like something I would oppose less strongly too:).

I still prefer to leave a possibility of including .tar.gz's,
if the maintainer feels that's better, but I don't have real
good arguments to say we absolutely must allow .tar.gz documentation
files. It's just I don't think there are no really good arguments
why there absolutely must not be .tar.gz documentation files,
and I prefer to leave room for the maintainers.

Personally, I'd say: talk to the maintainers of the packages
that have "real doc .tar.gz" files, and ask why they did it.

I presume that most of the times, they do it because the upstream
source does it, and they probably wouldn't mind untarring them.

> Note that I would like to have "example" files (not only docs, but also
> code example and config examples) referenced inside html docs as links
> to the file, not to the tarball.

Sure.

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joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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