Bug#680055: zsnes: Please package documentation separately

[Eshat Cakar]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:46:17 +0200
Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org> wrote:

> Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> writes:
> > I have just seen that about 900kB of the package's files are
> > installed into /usr/share/doc/zsnes. Since not all users need such
> > extensive documentation, please consider packaging it in a separate
> > zsnes-doc package.
> 
> I don't think that saving a tiny amount of disk space is a good reason
> to split packages.

+1

Lintian usually complains, if it makes sense to add a -data
package, but since 900kB is just 20% of the whole zsnes package, I do
not think it is worth the work (besides the fact it won't happen for
wheezy, as Etienne pointed out).

Cheers,

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