On 12 March 2014 14:53, Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> wrote: > This is an interesting idea. Note however that it has some drawbacks: if > the version of gnucash installed on your system is older than the last > version (and this happens for users of Debian stable), then the online > documentation will not correspond to the version being used.
Obviously it could link to a version specific online documentation. >> 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. 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. > 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
