Bug#419032: texlive-base: ships too many documentation files

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Michael, hi all Debian TeX Maintainers,
>
> On Fre, 13 Apr 2007, Michael Prokop wrote:
>> But /usr/share/doc/texlive* ships more than 80MB though I don't have
>> any doc-packages (besides texlive-doc-base which is a dependency of
>> texlive-base) on my system :

The -doc- packages are the language-specific documentation packages;
generally it's TeX Live's approach to bundle the documentation with the
package it documents.  And I think this makes more sense than we had
with the tetex-doc package (which was even problematic license-wise,
because there are some LaTeX packages which require to be distributed as
a whole).

> Second, separating this stuff would be a big diversion from upstreams
> collection system. I guess we could build a way around this, but I am
> not convinced that this makes a big advantage.
>
> All here, other opinions, should we look into a separation? I am against
> this, but if the general opinion is pro I can take a look at the perl
> code again ;-)

If we can find some better splitting approach (e.g. a package/collection
with general documentation, the FAQs, books etc.), we could suggest that
upstream and split it out.  But I am against diverting from upstream
here.  

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)