[Rpm-maint] Re: [Fedora-packaging] %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/ %doc?

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Fri Jun 29 08:51:41 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 22:08 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 18:28 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > Should files under %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html be marked as %doc?  They are
> > API docs for libraries which are extracted using the gtk-doc toolset and
> > viewable in devhelp.  I've never seen a set of files that was necessary
> > for the runtime operation of a library (and doubt that I will... they're
> > API docs and usually included in a -devel subpackage.)  On my current
> > system I haven't found any files in %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html that are
> > marked as %doc.
> 
> They should be considered %doc, yes.  But the right way to do so is to
> get it added to the list of docDirs within rpm.  Attached patch should
> do it.

To be honest rather than a hard coded list in files.c we probably want a
configurable list of dirs as a macro so policy can be site/distro/os
specific.

Paul




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