Hi,

I think subject of this bug should be changed - gnucap should be split
into binary and gnucap-doc packages. Currently the gnucap package 
contains a very large amount of architecture-independent data (few 
megabytes of pdf and html manuals, documentation and examples) in one, 
architecture-dependent package.
This is wasteful of space in LiveCD (as majority of desktop users don't 
need gnucap commands reference in 2 formats - html and pdf, gnucap is 
often simply used by another packages, like gcompris), also mirror space
and bandwidth, as we then end up with multiple copies of this data, one 
for each architecture. Initial estimates suggest that several gigabytes 
of Debian archive space may currently be wasted because of packages like gnucap.

The way to fix of gnucap package:

  * We need to have a gnucap-doc package split out to contain
/usr/share/doc/gnucap/gnucap-man.pdf and data in
/usr/share/doc/gnucap/html/ also the gnucap package should then be
altered to suggest or recommend the gnucap-doc package.

Packaging policy is very clear on this point:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices#s-bpp-archindepdata
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-docs

Btw, examples are duplicated in gnucap package, look at this debian
bugreport - http://bugs.debian.org/433304

Look at file listing of gnucap binary package and you will see lots of 
documentation in /usr/share/doc/gnucap/ folder, including same documentation in 
PDF format:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=gnucap&version=unstable&arch=i386&page=1&number=100

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas <mantas () akl , lt>

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