Le 13/04/12 16:54, Olе Streicher a écrit : > Thibaut Paumard <mlotpot.n...@free.fr> writes: >> At most, I would split the package in an arch-dependent and an >> arch-independent package, and that's assuming ds9 has even more arch >> indep data than just those messages (say, if the data reaches ~2MB). > > In my case, the architecture independent data (in /usr/share) are really > quite large: ~10 MB. However, most of this (~ 7MB) goes into the html > help (containing many images --> bad compression), which is more-or-less > indepenendent of the package itself. Therefore, I am planning to > separate the documentation into a saods9-doc package and make the saods9 > package dependend on the -doc. > > Would this be reasonable? I would allow a (usable) installation of the > documentation without the need to install the whole package (and its > dependency nightmare) - for whatever reason one would need this. > > Regards > > Ole > >
Hi, So you have : - 7MB documentation; - 3MB other ach-indep data; - some arch-dep data (the amount is not much relevant :-) ) Is the doc necessary for reliable use of the package, or is is just that you get an error message when clicking Help->User Manual? If it makes sense to not install the documentation, I would split in three: - ds9, depends on ds9-data, suggests (or recommends) ds9-doc; - ds9-data, recommends ds9 (contains the 3MB of share data); - ds9-doc, suggests ds9 (contains the 7MB of help). If you cannot run ds9 without the help, that makes the doc effectively application data and I would split in two: - ds9, depends on ds9-data - ds9-data, recommends ds9 (10MB). Best regards, Thibaut. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f8840d2.9010...@free.fr
