Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <app...@debian.org> wrote: > I filed a lintian wishlist bug (#527363) requesting a I/W tag when non > documentation packages recommend documentation packages.
That might be a good idea. However, for the texlive packages, we'll just add lintian overrides. > With Install-Recommends being the default, many packages pull in a lot of > associated documentation. These documentation packages are sometimes large > and could be suggested rather than recommended. I noticed different opinions > about such bugs on the BTS (See #504042 that went on to be fixed and #526153 > that was not). I understand that upstream would sometimes like documentation > to be installed alongside the binaries, For many parts of texlive, the license requires binary distributions to be complete. This is why we refused to create separate doc packages for a long time in the past. We have only separated the doc packages after Recommends became installed by default. At least that's how I recall the order of events; I might be wrong, but I think the argument holds nevertheless: We can do the splitting of the docs only because it takes a deliberate action to get rid of them, just as anyone receiving a "complete binary distribution" is able to rm -rf the doc directory. > Would there be any objections to filing minor/wishlist bugs against these > packages? We'll just add wontfix tags, so you might as well not bother to file the bugs against the texlive packages. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
