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Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files

From	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.policy
Subject	Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files
Date	2024-12-05 19:20 +0100
Message-ID	<JQoCd-dYeW-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.7.0.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org

Packages already tend to avoid requiring any files from /usr/share/man
or /usr/share/info, and don't require files in /usr/share/locale if
running in a C or C.UTF-8 locale.

The attached patch documents this in Policy, so that it's explicitly
supported for sysadmins to use dpkg exclusions or similar mechanisms to
delete /usr/share/doc, /usr/share/info, and /usr/share/locale.

To the best of my knowledge, this documents existing behavior, and will
not introduce any new bugs on any packages.

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Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 19:20 +0100
  Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2024-12-05 22:10 +0100
  Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-06 03:50 +0100
  Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-09 13:30 +0100
  Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages should not require man / info / locale files Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-10 10:30 +0100
    Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages should not require man / info / locale files Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-29 09:20 +0100
    Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages should not require man / info / locale files Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2024-12-30 19:00 +0100
  Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2024-12-31 18:10 +0100
    Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-01-04 11:40 +0100
      Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2025-01-04 12:30 +0100
        Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2025-01-04 13:00 +0100
          Bug#1089110: [PATCH] Document that packages cannot require man / info / locale files Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2025-01-04 22:50 +0100

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