Javier Serrano Polo <jav...@jasp.net> writes: > El dc 07 de 02 de 2018 a les 08:40 -0800, Russ Allbery va escriure:
>> Why would you not use the existing *-doc package construction, which >> seems to accomplish exactly the same goal and is already fairly >> standard practice for packages with large documentation directories? > Flexibility: maintainer may want to provide *-doc-minimal, skip > documentation build dependencies, or whatever reason. But *-doc is fine > to me. Then we can close this bug as unnecessary? Since the *-doc mechanism is already specified. >> The additional metadata required for the extra packages is going to >> eliminate any possible gain you would get here. > I do not think so. Metadata is usually smaller than those files: > copyright, changelog, manpages, etc. None of which you're addressing here except copyright. I'm fairly sure about this, but feel free to do an experiment if you really want to check the numbers. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
