Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 18:00 schrieb Simon Richter: > Christoph Haas wrote: > > 'cream' is a package with a lot of documentation. Until version 0.33 I > > had all the files in a single package. Now in 0.34 I want to split off > > the documentation so i have cream (main) and cream-doc > > (documentation). > > That only makes sense when the documentation is large and the package > has arch-specific components. Since both packages are arch:all, at least > in the control file you posted, I doubt it is worth it.
Sure, the architecture-dependency is one aspect. But the size of the package is what mattered to me: 512552 cream_0.34-2_all.deb 637582 cream-doc_0.34-2_all.deb So separating the documentation would save 640 KB for a "normal installation". I thought it would be worth it. > > Conflicts: cream(<<0.34) > > Replaces: cream(<<0.34) > > If there is no functional conflict, you can omit the Conflicts: here, as > you are merely replacing files in the old version. This would, however, > allow a situation where the new docs and the old programs are installed. You are right. But isn't that true for a number of other split packages, too? Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%-- 1,48 All