[Pkg-octave-devel] Merging octave-{doc,info,htmldoc}
Sébastien Villemot
sebastien at debian.org
Sun Jan 7 11:35:24 UTC 2018
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:57:13PM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2018-01-04 16:12]:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:34:31PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > > 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.
Thanks, I pushed that change.
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