[maemo-developers] docs and optification

[From: Mustali]

The copyright and other files in themdoc folder get purged by docpurge. If copyright files are required, the doc folder should be optified. I am assuming docpurge does not purge the docs folder in /opt.

----- Original message -----
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:37:42AM +0000, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:33, Josef Assad <joe at donassad.com> wrote:
> > > I was just sitting sifting through extras-testing. While verifying
> > > optification of apps therein, I saw that some apps were chucking the
> > > docs/appname/ off of /usr/share/ and some were optifying that bit.
> > >
> > > Which is preferable?
> >
> > Historically, shipping as small a package as possible was desirable;
> > so people didn't includre much (if anything) in
> > /usr/share/docs/<package>.
> >
> > Now, if a package uses /opt, it's less of an issue on an N900 -
> > however for most packages I'd still say much (if any) content in docs
> > is a waste of space. Certainly, if the same source package is used for
> > Fremantle and Diablo/Chinook, you don't want to waste space on those
> > earlier devices.
>
> Agree. I would say that shipping the copyright file is required
> though, and that's commonly in docs/appname/ . That's mainly what I've
> been looking at that folder for in extras-testing.
>
> > HTH,
>
> It does. Thank you. :)
>
> > Andrew
> >
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