[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#541836: Suggests wrong -doc package
Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
marcot at holoscopio.com
Sun Nov 8 20:51:32 UTC 2009
Hi!
Em Dom, 2009-10-18 às 19:13 -0200, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva escreveu:
(...)
> Em Dom, 2009-10-18 às 21:31 +0200, Joachim Breitner escreveu:
(...)
> > which name is better? libghc6-*-doc or haskell-doc? Boths have its
> > merits?
>
> As there 104 packages in libghc6-*-doc format in my count[1], I think we
> should stick with it.
(...)
I just received this lintian warning:
W: libghc6-bytestring-nums-doc: lib-recommends-documentation recommends:
ghc6-doc
N:
N: The given package appears to be a library package, but it
recommends a
N: documentation package. Doing this can pull in unwanted (and often
large)
N: documentation packages since recommends are installed by default
and
N: library packages are pulled by applications that use them. Users
usually
N: only care about the library documentation if they're developing
against
N: the library, not just using it, so the development package should
N: recommend the documentation instead. If there is no development
package
N: (for modules for scripting languages, for example), consider
Suggests
N: instead of Recommends.
N:
N: Severity: normal, Certainty: possible
N:
If we're going to stay with libghc6-*-doc packages, we should explain to
lintian maintainers that this is not a library package.
Greetings.
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marcot
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