[Pkg-octave-devel] Merging octave-{doc,info,htmldoc}

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2018-01-04 16:12]:

> On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:34:31PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Currently we have 3 doc packages for octave, that ship the same material under 
>> different formats: 
>> - octave-doc: PDF format, compressed deb ~5Mb, unpacked ~5.4Mb 
>> - octave-htmldoc: HTML format, compressed deb ~1.5Mb, unpacked ~12.5Mb 
>> - octave-info: info format, compressed deb ~1Mb, unpacked ~1Mb
>>
>> I think we should merge all of them into a single package (octave-doc), the 
>> gain space is very small for someone who wants only one format, and somebody 
>> installing documentation packages is unlikely to be space-constrained (it's 
>> clearly not an embedded system).
>>
>> Moreover, that would simplify the presentation of the documents in the doc-base 
>> system, because the user manual has two entries in the system (one for PDF, one 
>> for HTML), while it would make more sense to have only one entry (showing 
>> the two formats for the same document, as is possible with doc-base). The same 
>> applies to the library/developers' manual.
>>
>> octave-htmldoc and octave-info would become transitional packages, dropped 
>> after buster is released.
>>
>> Is that ok with you?
>
> I forgot to add that, since octave-info is currently recommended by octave 
> (because it is needed by the help browser in the GUI), my proposal would mean 
> that all the documentation would now be installed by default (unless one does 
> not install the Recommends by default).
>
> So the typical octave installation would grow by 18Mb (which is rather small 
> compared to the size of all dependencies, IIRC a previous thread).

Ok for me.

Rafael