Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 01:33:58PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > What is a graceful failure for some script is a crash for another...
>
> I would be happy to reduce the expectations of the language here; when I said
> "gracefully" here, the only case I had in mind was "doesn't fail silently"
> (e.g. just exiting or having a menu item silently fail, without showing any
> message).
What is missing in this policy proposal from my point of view, is what the
Debian maintainer is expected to do if the upstream software does not follow
it.
For /usr/share/doc/$pkg, it is easy to move the files to /usr/share/$pkg.
But for /usr/share/man and /usr/share/info, what to do ?
Secondly, I just found a package that fails if /usr/share/doc is removed, so I
wonder how far we can actually validate this.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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