Re: tar files in example dirs
joost witteveen wrote:
> ...
> and I prefer to leave room for the maintainers.
Well, I always think that if the maintainer has a reason to do something
and assert this somewhere, he can do that way.
Then we can discuss his reasons, but this is a different thing.
> Personally, I'd say: talk to the maintainers of the packages
> that have "real doc .tar.gz" files, and ask why they did it.
Well I prefered to discuss on debian policy instead of raising bugs.
But maybe this way could be even better, I agree.
> I presume that most of the times, they do it because the upstream
> source does it, and they probably wouldn't mind untarring them.
... and maybe you can agree that this isn't a strong reason, eh?
>
> > 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.
another example that came to my mind is the recent post on debian-user
of a user asking if there is a "driver" for a DJ printer to print
postscript on it.
I would have liked to reply him:
"Doing a grep dj on the file Contents that is on the ftp site
or your CD you can discover that package magicfilter installs
a file /usr/doc/examples/magicfilter/examples/dj550c-filter",
but I couldn't say that because that file is in a tarball and doesn't
show in the Contents file or using dpkg -S .
Could this be a good reason to force maintainers untar them?
What do others thinks?
Fabrizio
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