Debian jessie does not include the gmp documentation

Marco Bodrato bodrato at mail.dm.unipi.it
Mon Oct 26 16:15:31 UTC 2015


Ciao,

Il Lun, 26 Ottobre 2015 4:42 pm, Joerg Arndt ha scritto:
> The file  /usr/share/doc/libgmp10/README.Debian
> contains the mysterious sentences
>
>   Sadly, due to licensing the GMP documentation is no longer shipped in
>   Debian.  The package libgmp10-doc now contains only demo code.
>
> Any explanation for this?

The world "now" may suggest that the previous version of the package did
actually contain the documentation...

Debian decided to stop distributing GMP documentation since GMP-4.2.
I suggest you to start reading the following page:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335403

Best regards,
m

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