Bug#902942: systemd: please ship man/*.xml files

[Michael Biebl]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2018 13:54:56 +0200 Dominique Dumont <dod at debian.org> wrote:

> The latter should be done using xml files shipped as binary package,
> either in systemd package (along the man pages) or in a systemd-source
> package.


Neither of the two options seem very compelling.
Shipping the *.xml files in the systemd binary package means it will be
installed on basically every system out there. The man/ directory is
weighing about 3.7M, that is simply too much to be installed on
everyones system when it's only needed for a very special case.

Introducing yet another binary package, systemd-src, only for
libconfig-model-systemd-perl feels like a lot of overhead.

So I'm not sure what to do about this. Shipping the files as part of
systemd is certainly a no-go, though.

Michael
-- 
Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
universe are pointed away from Earth?

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-systemd-maintainers/attachments/20180909/11cc1129/attachment.sig>