From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [bug?] docs in Documentation/technical/ do not seem to be distributed
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:43:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170420004355.wlojjb4miudun4ur@genre.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZjrdWey6atV0rQUborVH0mnev5j8q3Qsny1dgr9hj8_Hz5uw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 01:03:09PM -0500, Samuel Lijin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This sounds like a packaging bug in Arch Linux and Ubuntu.
> >
> > That said, at least in Ubuntu, I am not able to reproduce it. Do
> > you have the git-doc (or git-all, which depends on git-doc) package
> > installed?
>
> That was the answer on the Ubuntu machine. Doesn't apply to Arch,
> though, so I guess I'll reach out upstream there. I've also opened
> #994 on the git/git-scm.com repo for this.
>
> Out of curiosity, do you know why it's distributed like that?
I expect the answer for Ubuntu is that it's the way that Debian does it.
Debian traditionally distributes documentation in a separate package
because it's architecture independent, and the binaries are not.
Therefore, including it in the main package would bloat the archive
substantially by including a copy of identical data for each
architecture.
Doing it this way also allows people to not install documentation that
they don't need, say, on a server.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-19 6:04 [bug?] docs in Documentation/technical/ do not seem to be distributed Samuel Lijin
2017-04-19 17:05 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-04-19 18:03 ` Samuel Lijin
2017-04-20 0:43 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
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