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    • Bill Allombert's avatar
      debian/rules: dpkg-gencontrol: remove useless -isp · 282bd883
      Bill Allombert authored
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    • Bill Allombert's avatar
      Recommendation for additional documentation · de173dae
      Bill Allombert authored 
      Policy: [12.3] recommend to ship additional documentation for package 'pkg'
in a separate package 'pkg-doc' and install it into /usr/share/doc/pkg.

Wording:  Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Closes: #106073
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    • Russ Allbery's avatar
      Some further wording tweaks to additional documentation · e369912e
      Russ Allbery authored 
      Weaken the documentation location to "should" to match previous
behavior.  Change the example of text documentation from TODOs to
FAQs.  Clarify that documentation should be installed elsewhere if
it is used or read by programs, rather than using the ambiguous
term "referenced."
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    • Russ Allbery's avatar
      Further overhaul of the additional documentation section · 62e9a6ad
      Russ Allbery authored 
      Building on top of Ben's patch, this includes the following changes:

* Shared library documentation is called out as a special case of the
  general rule that documentation should be packaged separately if it's
  large, recommending installing documentation of any appreciable size in
  the development package or a separate documentation package rather than
  the shared library package.

* The naming convention for documentation packages (package-doc or
  package-doc-language) is explicitly stated (but is not a requirement).

* package-doc is allowed to put documentation in either
  /usr/share/doc/package or /usr/share/doc/package-doc, but the former is
  preferred.  package-doc still has to install its own mandatory
  documentation files (changelog, copyright) in
  /usr/share/doc/package-doc.

* The paragraph about /usr/doc is removed.

* Some reorganization and wording tweaks to hopefully make things clearer.
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    • Ben Finney's avatar
      Recommend <package> documentation go in /usr/share/doc/<package> · 0e58a7e6
      Ben Finney authored 
      Recommend that <package> documentation be installed into
/usr/share/doc/<package> even if it's packaged separately.

Closes: #106073
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    • Bill Allombert's avatar
      upgrading-checklist.sgml: fix typo in previous patch · 8c20f74a
      Bill Allombert authored
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    • Bill Allombert's avatar
      Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit uids · b083c75f
      Bill Allombert authored 
      Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Closes: #765499
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    • Bill Allombert's avatar
      Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-* dependency · 8221be12
      Bill Allombert authored 
      Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
Closes: #750017
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    • Niko Tyni's avatar
      All packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-* dependency · b8cb320c
      Niko Tyni authored 
      Having $Config{vendorarch} change between Perl major versions (for
multiarch or other reasons) implies that packages using it need a strict
dependency on those versions of perl-base that have a compatible search
path (@INC).

The vast majority of these packages are binary ("XS") modules, where we
already require a dependency on the virtual package perlapi-*, provided
by perl-base. The name of this virtual package will change when the
interface between the Perl interpreter and the modules changes.

If we consider @INC part of that interface, we can use the existing
mechanism also for the few nonbinary modules using $Config{vendorarch}.
This is a new requirement that currently affects six packages in
the archive.
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