Hi! On Wed, 2025-01-15 at 09:43:36 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > My proposal is to move the man pages into libpam-doc. > I'm not actually convinced that normal Debian users need man pages for > all the pam modules on all Debian systems, and a suggests relationship > should be sufficient. > If people really want to maintain the current level of man page > presence, we could move the manpages into libpam-modules-bin which is > M-A: foreign.
ISTM that moving them to libpam-modules-bin would be the better path forward, as it would not regress with missing man pages. I think having no man pages by default when installing programs, config or other such content, that previously had them would be rather unexpected (I certainly miss them when packages have no man pages at all or even provide no man pages by default). I don't think size should be considered an issue here given that the man pages were already shipped (and we expect them to be installed as per policy), and as mentioned in the thread people can filter them out if desired. (Perhaps if you are shuffling files around you could also consider whether moving /etc/security and /usr/share/pam-configs into libpam-modules-bin as well also makes sense, to avoid potentially weird semantics with refcounted conffiles and M-A:same? Not a blocker though, just a thought, while checking the contents.) Thanks, Guillem
