>>>>> "Guillem" == Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> writes:
Guillem> Hi!
Guillem> On Wed, 2025-01-15 at 09:43:36 -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. If people really want to
>> maintain the current level of man page presence, we could move
>> the manpages into libpam-modules-bin which is M-A: foreign.
Guillem> ISTM that moving them to libpam-modules-bin would be the
Guillem> better path forward, as it would not regress with missing
Guillem> man pages. I think having no man pages by default when
Guillem> installing programs, config or other such content, that
Guillem> previously had them would be rather unexpected (I certainly
Guillem> miss them when packages have no man pages at all or even
Guillem> provide no man pages by default). I don't think size should
Guillem> be considered an issue here given that the man pages were
Guillem> already shipped (and we expect them to be installed as per
Guillem> policy), and as mentioned in the thread people can filter
Guillem> them out if desired.
Helmut has argued for moving the docs into arch: all packages to
hopefully be able to reduce arch all build dependencies.
That sounds like a good argument to me.
(We'd also need to do something about libpam0g-dev man pages).
Guillem> (Perhaps if you are shuffling files around you could also
Guillem> consider whether moving /etc/security and
Guillem> /usr/share/pam-configs into libpam-modules-bin as well also
Guillem> makes sense, to avoid potentially weird semantics with
Guillem> refcounted conffiles and M-A:same? Not a blocker though,
Guillem> just a thought, while checking the contents.)
Will moving conffiles around like /etc/security just work even if they
are modified, or will that trigger a bunch of what to do about modified
conffile at install time warnings?
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