On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 06:55:43PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:14:05AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > While I support the effort to reduce disk space usage, I strongly > > disagree with this proposal.
> > A software is worth nothing without appropriate documentation. > No, that's subjective, with the subject being the package > maintainer. If the maintainer considered the software "worth nothing" > without doc, he could have (in the past) marked the -doc package as > *dependency* as that was the only way in the past to have it installed > by default. Yes, and the MBF proposal *doesn't* take into account packages that previously *did* have a hard dep on their doc packages and only demoted it to a Recommends: once the default behavior changed. Cf. swat, samba-doc. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
