[Debian-science-sagemath] Refactoring sagemath package

[Tobias Hansen]

On 7/26/19 2:05 AM, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> 3. Multiple doc-packages
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>>     This one is easy. We have a separate doc-package for every language leading to unnecessary complexity in the debian folder. Apart from the English package they are all quite small. Merging them into a single doc package would just result in a package slightly bigger than the current English package. Are there any reasons not to do it?
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> I was just following other packages that split up their documentation by language. This split is done only by a small part of the packaging and I don't think removing it makes things simpler by much. In the future, one can imagine Sage might bring the other languages' documentation in line with the English version and then we would want to re-split the package out again.


Having all these different doc packages might even be misleading for some users. Someone who installs documentation only in one language might end up with an incomplete documentation and not realize that he needs the English one.

Best,

Tobias