[Pkg-octave-devel] Issues regarding octave-interval 1.5.0-1

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Oliver Heimlich <oheim at posteo.de> [2016-06-10 01:04]:

> I prepared a split version [1]. Instead of separating *all* arch-indep 
> files into a separate xxx-common package (as it has been done in 
> octave-communications and octave-ltfat), I have separated only the 
> arch-indep documentation into a separate xxx-doc package.
>
> I find this approach much easier to handle and to maintain, because it 
> creates two packages that can be used independently and the user may 
> choose to install the documentation or not.
>
> Of course, it does not remove /usr/share completely from the arch-dep 
> package, but should be sufficient for the Lintian thresholds: 
> 	octave-interval - /usr/share 891kB (73%) clearly below 2MB 
> 	octave-interval-doc - /usr/share 1.3MB
>
> Also, this should fix the high memory consumption of arch-dep only 
> builds as well as a problem on sparc64 with Imagemagick.
>
> If you are fine with this change, I am going to work on the privacy 
> issue (external CSS in the manual) next.

I quickly check your changes and they look fine.  Having a -doc instead 
of a -common package is probably the best solution.  Please, go ahead.

Rafael