Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 01:02:29PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > In the future, if users can easily filter out locale data, we could > > decide that that's the easier path to support such users, and that fewer > > package maintainers need to maintain separate -l10n packages. > > The future is 14 years old. > https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/11/15/save-disk-space-by-excluding-useless-files-with-dpkg/
I'm aware, and that was the feature I was talking about in this thread. The point was that that isn't *guaranteed* to work, by Policy, hence the Policy proposal to say that packages should work with those files removed.
