[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#518167: Package openssl includes more than megabyte of irrelevant documentation

[Victor Wagner]

Package: openssl
Version: 0.9.8g-15
Severity: minor


Binary package openssl installs in /usr/share/doc/openssl/doc everything
that contained in the doc directory of openssl source distribution.

But most of contents there is source (POD files) from which openssl and
libssl-dev manual pages are generated.

So, about 180k of these POD files just duplicate manual pages for
openssl utility itself (directory app), and more than megabyte
(directories crypto and ssl) are really source for manual pages for
OpenSSL API. These man pages itself are included into libssl-dev package
where they belongs.

I suggest that these sources for manual pages shouldn't be put into
binary packages at all. They can be left in the source packages, because
manual pages generated from them are already included.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-486
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages openssl depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8g-15         SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

openssl recommends no packages.

Versions of packages openssl suggests:
ii  ca-certificates               20080809   Common CA certificates

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