gnucap should be split into binary and gnucap-doc packages

Bug #127067 reported by Mantas Kriaučiūnas
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnucap (Baltix)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
gnucap (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
gnucap (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnucap

gnucap should be split into binary and gnucap-doc packages - currently the gnucap package contains a very large amount of architecture-independent data (few megabytes of pdf and html manuals, documentation and examples) in one, architecture-dependent package.

This is wasteful of space in LiveCD (as majority of desktop users don't need gnucap commands reference in 2 formats - html and pdf, gnucap is often simply used by another packages, like gcompris), also mirror space and bandwidth, as we then end up with multiple copies of this data, one for each architecture. Initial estimates suggest that
several gigabytes of Ubuntu/Debian archive space may currently be wasted
because of packages like gnucap.

The way to fix of gnucap package:

  * We need to have a gnucap-doc package split out to contain /usr/share/doc/gnucap/gnucap-man.pdf and data in /usr/share/doc/gnucap/html/ also the gnucap package should then be altered to suggest or recommend the gnucap-doc package.

Packaging policy is very clear on this point:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices#s-bpp-archindepdata
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-docs

Btw, examples are duplicated in gnucap package, look at this debian bugreport - http://bugs.debian.org/433304

Look at file listing of gnucap binary package and you will see lots of documentation in /usr/share/doc/gnucap/ folder, including same documentation in PDF format:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=gnucap&version=gutsy&arch=i386&page=1&number=100

Changed in gnucap:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gnucap:
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Aanjhan Ranganathan (aanjhan) wrote :

Fix released for Intrepid in Version 1:0.35-1.1. Please feel free to re-open if you find the problem still exisiting.
Thanks.

Changed in gnucap:
status: New → Fix Released
Przemek K. (azrael)
Changed in gnucap (Baltix):
status: New → Fix Released
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