On lun, 2004-07-19 at 16:24 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Steven Pritchard (steve@silug.org) said:
So should those packages be renamed to whatever-doc (or *-doc be renamed to *-docs)? Or maybe we should just make sure all of the packages have a Provides: foo-doc[s] so getting the name wrong still works (at least for apt).
Frankly, I've been of the opinion that the docs should be merged into the main package, and can be installed with --excludedocs if people want that. I'm probably in the minority though (and the PHP manual makes this excessive. :) )
Sometimes docs are reference material and are quite useful even without the associated binaries (think intranet documentation server).
I feel that's what the -manual (in apache-manual and in all jpp -manual packages) intends to convey.
Though I must also say the /usr/share/doc mess is really not adapted to this usage (some packages install executable scripts in there for christsake!). A root dedicated to cleanly laid-out html manuals would be much better to export via http/ftp/nfs/cifs/whatever. That would be a perfect way to start seeding /srv/ for example.
Cheers,