autofs - patches in %doc?

[Jeff Moyer]

Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> writes:

> $ du -h /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/*.patch
> 76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.10-v5-update.patch
> 76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.11-v5-update.patch
> 76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.12-v5-update.patch
> 76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.13-v5-update.patch
> 76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.14-v5-update.patch
> 76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.15-v5-update.patch
> 76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.16-v5-update.patch
> 28K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.17-v5-update.patch
> 28K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.18-v5-update.patch
> 20K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.19-v5-update.patch
> 16K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.20-v5-update.patch
> 8.0K    /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.21-v5-update.patch
> 8.0K    /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.22-v5-update.patch
> 4.0K    /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.23-v5-update.patch
> 76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.9-v5-update.patch
> 4.0K    /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/util-linux-2.12a-flock.patch
> 4.0K    /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/util-linux-2.12q-flock.patch
>
> [$ du -h autofs-5.0.4/patches
> 2.0M    autofs-5.0.4/patches
> ]
>
> So, we've got ~48K of %changelog details in the autofs.spec, but the
> question why the %doc line explicitly includes  patches/*  is not answered.
> That clutters up the docdir unnecessarily.
>
> Who can tell why this is done?

I presume Ian can.

Cheers,
Jeff