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

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sun, Sep 9, 2018, 04:12 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

We have had this reaction a number of times. Shipping systemd.pc in a
separate package comes to mind. Perhaps we have a number of such "extra"
files that could be bundled into this extra package?


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


Agreed.


Saludos
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