Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.9.0
Severity: minor
Hello,
the thread on debian-devel about
"Generally accepted cut-off limit for -doc packages"
starting with
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg00218.html
showed that we need some policy about a reasonable size of -doc packages.
Because this thread shows as well that developers sometimes are not able to
comunicate I just point to the relevant mails of this thread. There are
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg00455.html
(the important part is after "Off the top of my head ..."
and
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg00409.html
(the important part starts with the shell script)
So we have some obviousely unnecessary -doc packages and some others were
luckyly prevented to go in because of the good work of ftpmaster. So it
would be time to iron out this problem in the policy. The following problem
in defining such a limit have shown up:
Do we need an absolute limit of installed size of the doc package
or should we define an additional relative limit compared to the
rest of the binary package.
I feel not competent to decide that and so I have no fix for this problem -
sorry. I would ask ftpmaster because he has the most experience here.
I second problem which was not adressed in the thread comes into mind:
Do we need a maximum limit of installed size of documentation in
binary packages. In my opinion it should also be part of the policy
that developers *should* split documentation from the binary package
if it is larger than a *to be defined* limit (perhaps also defined
as combination of absolute and relative values).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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