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Add policy that covers when not to split packages into a -devel module due to man pages Update policy: Prior to building a package to add checking for a maintainer Fixes #557
EbonJaeger
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Oct 24, 2025
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| #### Development modules should be normal packages without a -devel subpackage | ||
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| In the cases where modules like `perl` or `python` would be split by the default `ypkg` policy (for instance because they contain category 3 `man` pages), the current best practice is to add a `patterns : /*` stanza to keep everything in the main package for convenience. |
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| In the cases where modules like `perl` or `python` would be split by the default `ypkg` policy (for instance because they contain category 3 `man` pages), the current best practice is to add a `patterns : /*` stanza to keep everything in the main package for convenience. | |
| In the cases where modules like `perl` or `python` would be split by the default `ypkg` policy (for instance because they contain category 3 `man` pages), the best practice is to add a `patterns : /*` stanza to keep everything in the main package for convenience. |
In the interest of keeping the documentation "timeless," I think we should avoid saying that "this is the way it currently is." I think it can be inferred that by virtue of being in the documentation, it is "current."
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Add policy that covers when not to split packages
into a -devel module due to man pages
Update policy: Prior to building a package to add
checking for a maintainer
Fixes #557