Re: docs, docs, and more docs(names of packages and location of files)

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

"Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> writes:

> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 02:54, Adam Heath wrote:
>> In doing this, I found several packages that had large quantities of
>> documentation in a non-doc type package.  This meant that all installs of said
>> package had that documentation around.
>
> I think splitting out a -doc is always good if it's more than, say, 10%
> of the pkgs installed size.

     I agree with the concept, but I think 20% would be a better
limit.  Of course, the man pages, copyright and changelogs must stay
in the package (absent a major policy change).

Regards,

Bob
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