On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 01:03:09PM -0500, Samuel Lijin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This sounds like a packaging bug in Arch Linux and Ubuntu. > > > > That said, at least in Ubuntu, I am not able to reproduce it. Do > > you have the git-doc (or git-all, which depends on git-doc) package > > installed? > > That was the answer on the Ubuntu machine. Doesn't apply to Arch, > though, so I guess I'll reach out upstream there. I've also opened > #994 on the git/git-scm.com repo for this. > > Out of curiosity, do you know why it's distributed like that? I expect the answer for Ubuntu is that it's the way that Debian does it. Debian traditionally distributes documentation in a separate package because it's architecture independent, and the binaries are not. Therefore, including it in the main package would bloat the archive substantially by including a copy of identical data for each architecture. Doing it this way also allows people to not install documentation that they don't need, say, on a server. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | https://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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