On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 12:54:20PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Bill Allombert <ballo...@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.
Debian policy is meant to apply even to packages that are not usually part of container images. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
