Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files
* Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> [250104 12:21]:
> > > Secondly, I just found a package that fails if /usr/share/doc is
> > > removed, so I wonder how far we can actually validate this.
> >
> > We've had that restriction in place for a long time, so that package is
> > just buggy, I think.
>
> Precisely, the package in question was not changed since that policy was in
> effect. Debian was not able to detect this problem for so long so policy
> promising otherwise might not quite reflect the state of the distribution.
Given the container images have shipped for years with this dpkg config:
path-exclude /usr/share/doc/*
I wonder if the package in question just is not very relevant in
assessing the state of the distribution.
Chris
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