Bug#790042: udev: missing NEWS.Debian

[Michael Biebl]

Am 28.06.2015 um 11:50 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 28.06.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> 
>> Indeed, what the heck -- I do get /usr/share/doc/udev/NEWS.Debian.gz
>> in the Ubuntu build, but not in the Debian build, but Ubuntu's
>> debhelper has no difference wrt. debian/package.NEWS installation.
>> It's also the same version.
>>
>> dh_installchangelog says that debian/package.NEWS gets installed as
>> /usr/share/doc/package/NEWS.Debian.
>>
>> Locally rebuilding systemd in current sid *does* get me the file in
>> udev_.*deb. So I'm afraid I don't know what's going on here :-( It
>> seems a mere rebuild fixes it.
> 
> It's very likely the doc-symlinking, which is Debian only, which causes
> udev.README.Debian to not be installed in Debian.

One more reason to get rid of it, imho.
# du -hs /usr/share/doc/libudev1
56K	/usr/share/doc/libudev1

The space savings of 56K are simply not worth the complexity.

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