This one time, at band camp, Josip Rodin said:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 02:58:01PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > The bulk of this package is
> > > /usr/share/doc/clamav-freshclam/examples/main.cvd
> > > 
> > > Because the clamav-freshclam package is architecture-dependent,
> > > these 8.8 MB, in the future even more, get duplicated for all 
> > > architectures,
> > > wasting a bunch of space on the mirrors.
> > > 
> > > This should instead be placed in a separate, architecture-independent 
> > > package
> > > on which clamav-freshclam could depend on. That way, mirrors carry only 
> > > one
> > > copy.
> > 
> > That makes sense, I'll look at that shortly.
> 
> I should mention that this is technically wishlist, but the following has
> been in the developer's reference for years now:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-archindepdata

Yes, it's just one of those 'doh' moments, I suppose.  I really should
have caught it before now.
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