= Proposed System Wide Change: Unversioned Docdirs = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UnversionedDocdirs Change owner(s): Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> Install package specific documentation to an unversioned subdir in /usr/share/doc. == Detailed description == Change the per package documentation directory in /usr/share/doc to unversioned, just containing the package's name (previously it contained both the package's name and its version). rpmbuild already has support for this, by setting the %_docdir_fmt macro to %{name} we cover most of the cases. Other cases can be grepped through from package specfiles/patches -- grepping for _docdir, _defaultdocdir, usr/share/doc and _datadir.*doc should catch almost everything. Packages for which multiple versions are intended to be installed need to be changed to install their docs into appropriately versioned subdirs, for example explicitly using the previous NAME-VERSION scheme. Some of these cases, if unaddressed, will also manifest themselves as build failures due to files not found at expected locations. == Scope == Proposal owners: take care of having the %_docdir_fmt macro set to %{name} in rpm or redhat-rpm-config, grep through package specfiles and patches identifying cases needing special attention. Other developers: see if their package explicitly refers to a NAME-VERSION subdir in /usr/share/doc, and change those to NAME. Release engineering: mass rebuild is required after the %_docdir_fmt macro change. Policies and guidelines: all documentation referring to NAME-VERSION subdirs in /usr/share/doc needs to be changed to NAME instead. _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
