Hi Sam, On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 09:43:36AM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > My proposal is to move the man pages into libpam-doc. > I'm not actually convinced that normal Debian users need man pages for > all the pam modules on all Debian systems, and a suggests relationship > should be sufficient.
I've actually used those pages more than once and appreciated their presence by default, but I also appreciate the ability to not install them. Sounds like I'll end up installing libpam-doc where I need them. >From a package building pov, I'd appreciate if you could also move the tools for building the manual pages to Build-Depends-Indep while you move them. > I think there are no usrmerge implications. While libpam-modules did > move files from /lib/multiarch_tripple/security to > /usr/lib/multiarch_tripple/security, the man pages have always been in > /usr/share/man, which lives on /usr. I confirm. Their presence inside the /usr/share hierarchy makes them fully independent of any /usr-merge or /usr-move concerns. Helmut
