* Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> [250104 12:21]: > > > Secondly, I just found a package that fails if /usr/share/doc is > > > removed, so I wonder how far we can actually validate this. > > > > We've had that restriction in place for a long time, so that package is > > just buggy, I think. > > Precisely, the package in question was not changed since that policy was in > effect. Debian was not able to detect this problem for so long so policy > promising otherwise might not quite reflect the state of the distribution.
Given the container images have shipped for years with this dpkg config: path-exclude /usr/share/doc/* I wonder if the package in question just is not very relevant in assessing the state of the distribution. Chris
