Bug#852166: Contains a large number of auto-generated stub manpages

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Good investigation :) 
Indeed, there are some room for improvements here

Le 22 janvier 2017 09:56:23 GMT+01:00, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org> a écrit :
>Package: liblapack-doc-man
>Version: 3.7.0-1
>Severity: normal
>
>liblapack-doc-man installs 10770 files into /usr/share/man/man3, all of
>which 
>seem to be generated by Doxygen if I understand correctly.
>
>Of these 10770 files, 5902 are symlinks and 4868 are regular files.
>Of the 4868 regular files:
>• 2057 files consist of 19 lines (documenting a function)
>• 2550 files consist of 25 lines (documenting a file)
>
>Notably, these files do not contain anything but the function
>prototype.
>
>261 files with actual content worth looking at remain.
>
>The large number of files without substantial content is unfortunate
>for a few 
>different reasons:
>
>• On manpages.debian.org, liblapack-doc-man consumes 1GB of disk space
>per 
>Debian version. The next biggest consumer is linux-manual-4.8 with 51
>MB.
>
>• liblapack-doc-man consumes about 10000 inodes on user’s root file
>systems for 
>no good reason. Even when plenty of inodes are available, remember that
>many 
>backup programs do not scale well when presented with a large number of
>tiny 
>  files.
>  
>• I haven’t verified it, but I assume that the man database and similar
>tools 
>will degrade in performance when presented with such a large corpus of 
>  manpages.
>  
>Could you change the package so that it only contains the 261 files
>with actual
>content please? Thank you!
>
>
>-- System Information:
>Debian Release: 9.0
>  APT prefers testing
>APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
>'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
>Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel
>
>Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
>Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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