Executable example scripts in documentation

[Ville Skyttä]

On Friday 06 March 2009, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > rpmlint warns about this (spurious-executable-perm).  But I think rpmlint
> > is wrong.
> >
> > There are scant guidelines about this - just one oblique reference in
> > a "packaging mistakes" page.  There is no convincing explanation I can
> > find as to why including an executable script in documentation is a
> > bad thing.
>
> They sometimes pull in additional dependencies.

FWIW, rpmlint has a separate "doc-file-dependency" check for that.