Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > OTOH, thinking ahead a little bit, if we *do* insist on requiring > changelog entries for binNMUs in the package that may make things > interesting for multiarch. Since binNMUS are per-architecture, binNMUS > on two architectures may have the same version but different changelog > entries, making it impossible to share the /usr/share/doc/ directory > between archs for these packages. Maybe the answer there is to have a > policy of always binNMUing multiarch packages in lockstep; I don't think > the alternative of *requiring* multiarch packages to symlink to an arch: > all package for their changelogs makes much sense.
We could simply require multiarch packages to not symlink their /usr/share/doc directory. It's a space optimization only, really, and feels like something we can give up if there's a reason to do so. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hl6izlq....@windlord.stanford.edu
