Hello, On Wed, Feb 07 2018, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: > X-Debbugs-CC: aba@debian.org, ballombe@debian.org, >spwhitton@spwhitton.name, rra@debian.org > > El dc 07 de 02 de 2018 a les 08:56 -0700, Sean Whitton va escriure: >> > X-Debbugs-CC: >> >> This isn't needed. > > Do you receive my messages from the list? > https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2018/02/threads.html Yes. >> > 1. Option to not install documentation files. >> >> Could you expand on why this is worth doing? > > Many users do not install documentation and do not care about > copyright and changelog files. This does not explain why it is problematic to have the (small) copyright files additionally installed. > I was going to propose this with Depends source-copyright, but > Recommends is technically more accurate and I see no legal issues. This would be the ftp-master's call. >> I suspect it increases dak's workload, though, due to all the extra >> binary packages. > > Yes, and package lists get bigger, I know. This scalability problem > should be discussed elsewhere. Why elsewhere? Policy would be the thing imposing the problem! >> > 2. It helps to solve the Multi-Arch file refcounting problem. >> >> I'm not aware of this; could you refer me to a description of the >> problem? > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/TimeTravelFixes#Multi-Arch_file_refcounting Thanks. -- Sean Whitton
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