On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:58:51AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > >> I bringed the discussion in out maintenance list but dropping >> Recommends to Suggests is likely to make us provide a "broken" home page >> for SWAT by default. We could of course patch SWAT so that the page >> explicitely says that adding samba-doc is needed but that would be >> glightly ugly. >> >> So, that could be seen as a quite calid use case, indeed..:) > > As a raw estimation about 50% of the packages I maintain / sponsor use > the doc package not only as pure standalone doc but the doc might be > used by the help system of the native program / web application. You > might argue that in this case the program should be called *-data, but > I'd call this nitpicking because the packages in itself are perfectly > valid doc packages and make sense on their own. So I do not think that > this issue is really atarget for mass bug filing because chances for > false positives are to high. I'm fine with a lintian warning which > can be overriden by the maintainer in case he decides recommending the > doc package is the reight way to go.
+1 and this is what I will do for 'fsl' and 'fslview', since the corresponding doc packages provide the online-help of the respective applications -- even though these are plain html files that perfectly fit into a separate doc package. Michael -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/hanke ICQ: 48230050 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
