In light of rdoc generated documentation making ruby packages fail reprotest, I wonder whether shipping rdoc with ruby libraries is worth the trouble of trying to fix this.
These docs are now easily available online and can be trivially rebuilt from source by developers who need a local copy. They add a lot to the size of the packages (e.g. of the 1.9M unpacked size of ruby-pg, 1.5M is rdoc and 0.5M of that is standard boilerplate like JS, images, and fonts), this in turn adds to archive size, network bandwidth, time it takes to download and install the package. Is dropping rdoc a reasonable tradeoff to fix reprotest? If not, any ideas and/or volunteers for making rdoc generated documentation reproducible and, ideally, less wasteful? -- Dmitry Borodaenko
