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Bug#608329: uncompressed files in doc not serious

December 30th, 2010 - 04:10 am ET by Steve M. Robbins | Report spam
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severity 608329 normal
thanks

I don't believe this merits a "serious" error, as serious is
defined (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer) to be:

a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a "must"
or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's or
release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for
release.

Debian Policy 12.3 says

Plain text documentation should be installed in the directory
/usr/share/doc/package, where package is the name of the package,
and compressed with gzip -9 unless it is small.

The files that I can see in /usr/share/doc/bzflag are all small
(nothing over 50kb) and, in any event, this is not a "must" directive.

Cheers,
-Steve







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#1 Julian Gilbey
December 30th, 2010 - 04:20 am ET | Report spam
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 03:06:06AM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
severity 608329 normal
thanks

I don't believe this merits a "serious" error, as serious is
defined (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer) to be:
[...]
Debian Policy 12.3 says



Happy for the reclassification. Note that Policy 12.7 uses "must",
though it is unclear whether the must refers to the existence of the
changelog or its compression or both:

Packages that are not Debian-native must contain a compressed copy of
the `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source tree in
`/usr/share/doc/<package>' with the name `changelog.Debian.gz'.

Julian



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