On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:58:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> was heard to say: > > I think that lintian warning is the right way to do it. > > I don't -- I think there are too many false positives for a lintian > warning given the thread. I also think this is fundamentally going in > the wrong direction. Wouldn't our users expect to get the documentation > with many of these packages by default? Normally you do get some > documentation with things, and I've always been surprised by, say, ntp > not including any documentation without installing a separate package.
I agree with this. I consider installing a program and *not* installing its documentation to be an unusual situation, and if this bug is filed I will treat it as a request to make my packages worse. aptitude-doc is split out to save archive space and as a feature for users who want to save a few megabytes by removing the user manual, not because I want to force users to jump through hoops to get documentation on their system. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
