[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Jon Masters]

On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:25 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> "Files marked as documentation must not cause additional dependencies that 
> aren't satisfied by the package itself or its dependency chain as it would be 
> if none of its files marked as documentation were included in the package."

Doesn't this exclude things like man pages, since they need a man page
formatter to display them that would not be required were those docs not
included in a package? If so, it seems like an excessive limitation.

Jon.