Hello Faidon! On 8/18/20 5:27 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > I don't think two (very small) manpages warrant the creation of a new > -common package. It would also be both against a policy "should", about > including the man page in "the same package" (12.1), as well as common > practice and user expectations.
As I explained, it's a matter of bootstrappability. Your package is not a leaf package which is why this particular problem cannot be ignored. Helmut Grohne (CC'ed) who is also working on keeping Debian bootstrappable will also be able to explain this problem to you. Keeping Debian bootstrappable is important as it allows the whole system to be bootstrapped from scratch with merely the sources available. Since pandoc is a package which requires a large number of packages to be built before it can be built itself, your package becomes a blocker when bootstrapping Debian which is something that needs to be avoided. As for 12.1, there is already git-man which contains the packages for the manpages for git. And since 12.1 is a recommendation and not a requirement, I do not think how your argument holds up. Especially, since this simple change unbreaks an important requirement in Debian. Please consider moving manpage generation into a -man package. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
