Bug 492439

In case we should be splitting our packages with bigger doc, then it should be  added into packaging guidelines after discussion on fedora-devel and probably also on FESCO meeting.

FWIW: I am opposed to splitting out the perl-docs.

(In reply to comment #1)
> In case we should be splitting our packages with bigger doc, then it should be 
> added into packaging guidelines after discussion on fedora-devel and probably
> also on FESCO meeting.  

w/ my FPC-member-hat on:

* The current rule can be summarized as "put all documentation into the package containing the components a document is documenting".
Wrt. this rule, the perl package has deficiencies. Whether addressing them makes sense/is worth it, is a separate problem (IMO, it's not worth it).

* The FPG's recommendation to split out larger docs into separate *-doc packages originates from  packaging "optional docs", e.g. html formated docs.
AFAIS, the current perl package (I only checked FC10) doesn't contain such documents.

* Adding a separate *-doc package for perl adds further packages deps, which further complicates the already complex packaging of perl.

* Technically, separate *-docs packages are not necessary.

(In reply to comment #0)
> Package's documentation is over 1 MB (perl-5.10.0, 2448 kbytes). Creating a
> -doc subpackage and moving the documentation files there would save
> considerable space on the live media.

Actually, the documetation files in perl.rpm occupy about 9 MB:
- %{_docdir}/perl-5.10.0/ occupies 2.5 MB
- perl manual pages occupy 6.6 MB

The description of this bug mentiones the former; since it is a compressed version of almost 11 MB of change log text, it should go away.  I moved it to perl-devel, details in bug #492605.

For the latter, I second Ralf's comment #2: --excludedocs is your friend.

According to my private communication with the reporter, the fix for #492605 actually solves his issue; yet I'm setting the resolution to NOTABUG indicating that it is preferable not to split the package.