Le mercredi 12 mars 2014 à 15:17 +0700, Chris Bainbridge a écrit : > On 12 March 2014 14:53, Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> wrote:
> >> The Debian Policy Manual does say "Packages must not require the > >> existence of any files in /usr/share/doc/ in order to function > >> (The system administrator should be able to delete files in > >> /usr/share/doc/ without causing any programs to break.)" > > > > This is clearly a false statement. gnucash is not unusable at all in the > > absence of the documentation. Only two menu items about documentation > > will not work; instead they display a message saying that gnucash-docs > > should be installed. > > I didn't say gnucash was unusable, just that the menu entries to > documentation get broken. I'd say that counts as a violation of > "without causing any programs to break" - a "break" does not > necessarily mean that a package becomes completely unusable, merely > that part of the program becomes broken - in this case, in-menu links > to documentation become broken. But since gnucash gracefully handles that case, this clearly does not count as a "break" for me. Also note that the Yelp documentation used by gnucash in that case is not located under /usr/share/doc, but under /usr/share/gnome/help, so your point is not valid anyways. > By the way, there seems to be another bug. The documentation popup says: > > "Document Not Found > > The URI ‘ghelp:gnucash-help’ does not point to a valid page. > > Search for packages containing this document." > > If I click on the search link, it says "You do not have PackageKit. > Package install links require PackageKit." > > So it seems PackageKit needs to be listed as a dependency of gnucash > in order for the search link to work. May it be that you did not install yelp? Anyways, this is off-topic for this bug. > > There are people who disagree with you, see: > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451894 > > As I said, for people on fast broadband installing a 100MB+ > documentation file is no problem. For users in developing countries > relying on poor internet connections (like me), a 100MB+ download can > be a problem. Sure, downloading 100MB+ on a slow connection is painful. But since this download is optional, I don't see the problem. -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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