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Bug#823348: Limit the strongest dependencies on supplemental -doc packages



On Sun, 01 Jan 2017 23:06:17 -0800 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> > index 404dc73..421e0d1 100644
> > --- a/policy.sgml
> > +++ b/policy.sgml
> > @@ -10699,6 +10699,18 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> >  	</p>
> >  
> >  	<p>
> > +	  If <var>package</var> is a build tool, development tool,
> > +	  command-line tool, or library development package,
> > +	  <var>package</var> (or <var>package</var>-dev in the case of a
> > +	  library development package) already provides documentation in
> > +	  man, info, or plain text format, and <var>package</var>-doc
> > +	  provides HTML or other formats, <var>package</var> should declare
> > +	  at most a <tt>Suggests</tt> on <var>package</var>-doc. Otherwise,
> > +	  <var>package</var> should declare at most a <tt>Recommends</tt> on
> > +	  <var>package</var>-doc.
> > +	</p>
> > +
> > +	<p>
> >  	  Additional documentation included in the package should be
> >  	  installed under <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file>.
> >  	  If the documentation is packaged separately,
> 
> -- 
> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
> 
> 

Seconded. :)

Thanks,
~Niels



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