On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:16:22 +0100, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hubert Chan wrote: >> Personally, I'm not too concerned about the doc packages not getting >> installed. There are a lot of packages in Debian that are split into >> executable and documentation that don't have hard dependencies to >> automatically install the documentation. > Note that until now, the info documentation for most GNU programs was > distributed in the package with the executables and not in the -doc > package. That indicates that Debian regarded this information as > essential for these programs. Not necessarily. Often times, the documentation is small enough that it does not justify splitting off into a separate package. Or the maintainer just didn't see any reason to split it off, and just never bothered to. It's easier to maintain a source that generates few packages than one that generates more packages. > But this point of view will have to change now. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
