On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:13:48PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello Debian developers, > > When doing research about circular-deps, I looked at a lot of packages > that are split between a binary package and a data package. This is a > good thing since this reduce the total siez of the archive, however > there are simple rules that should be followed: > > 3) Keep the files that 'signal' executables in the same package than the > executable (e.g. menu file, program manpage).
Why? I agree that it menu files and manpages are generally not that large, but what would it break to have them in pkg-data? (I would consider it strange to have such files out of the main pkg package, but it looks policy-compliant as far as I can see...) Nicolas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
