Bug#442052: texlive-pstricks: Put documentation into another package

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Tomasz Melcer <liori@o2.pl> wrote:

> Package: texlive-pstricks
> Version: 2007-3
> Severity: normal
>
> There is a log of pdf files in the package, which take much space.
> /usr/share/doc/texlive-pstricks is the biggest directory in
> /usr/share/doc on my system, even though i actually don't use
> documentation for pstricks. Please split the package into two smaller.

We already discussed the issue when looking at other packages, and I
think it was consensus that we will try to generate a texlive-*-doc
package for most texlive-* packages.  That will solve this bug.

However, this won't happen soon. I fear it won't happen for lenny even,
because of two reasons:

- we don't have the manpower to do the coding (hey, volunteers welcome)

- there's going to be a change in upstream packaging infrastructure in
  TL 2008.  Since we take our Debian packaging information from that
  upstream information, it doesn't make too much sense to implement this
  change now with the old infrastructure, and do it once again for TL
  2008.  
  
  Unfortunately, TL 2008 is not going to be in lenny unless its release
  is delayed a lot, or (again) someone steps up and shows they have the
  skills and time to bring TL 2008 into Debian.  The latter would
  involve a considerable upstream involvement, too, since ATM no
  snapshots of the TL 2008 (and no updates of compiled source at all) do
  happen.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)