Bug#889820: debian-policy: 12.5, relaxed requirement for copyright location
Javier Serrano Polo <javier@jasp.net> writes:
> El dc 07 de 02 de 2018 a les 08:40 -0800, Russ Allbery va escriure:
>> Why would you not use the existing *-doc package construction, which
>> seems to accomplish exactly the same goal and is already fairly
>> standard practice for packages with large documentation directories?
> Flexibility: maintainer may want to provide *-doc-minimal, skip
> documentation build dependencies, or whatever reason. But *-doc is fine
> to me.
Then we can close this bug as unnecessary? Since the *-doc mechanism is
already specified.
>> The additional metadata required for the extra packages is going to
>> eliminate any possible gain you would get here.
> I do not think so. Metadata is usually smaller than those files:
> copyright, changelog, manpages, etc.
None of which you're addressing here except copyright.
I'm fairly sure about this, but feel free to do an experiment if you
really want to check the numbers.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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