Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
foo depends on foo-data. But foo-data does NOT depend on foo.
So an "apt-get install foo-data", while being useless, is consistent
for dpkg. After that you would end up with a menu entry for foo but no
foo binary.
MfG
Goswin
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