On 07/31/2018 08:40 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> There is an example in *this* package (qttools-opensource-src) — Qt Assistant
> bundles its own help as a resource:
> 
> https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qttools.git/tree/src/assistant/assistant/assistant.qrc
> 
> Codesearch tells me that “aseba” and “speedcrunch” packages may be doing
> a similar thing:
> 
> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%5C.qch+path%3A.*%5C.qrc

It's still a bad practice, in my personal opinion, because it adds redundancy.

Resource files (docs, images etc) are normally architecture-independent, so
they should be separable from the binary packages.

Adrian

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