On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 12:08:08 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I've read this several times, and > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UnversionedDocdirs > > and I still don't understand what this message means. My message or a specific bugzilla ticket? > How would this cause subpackage conflicts? Have you heard about Doxygen generated documentation causing conflicts? Here the problem is expanded into a conflict between the base package and the second package that also includes the documentation. > What has arch/noarch got to do with anything? A noarch subpackage may be built on any build arch different than the builder that creates the base package. This triggers bugs (such as the Doxygen timestamp/footer bug), because the noarch build's doc files may differ from the arch build's doc files. If no noarch subpkg is involved, it [hopefully] boils down to just duplicated files. > Can you point to an example of a packaging problem? Duplicate files are a packaging problem already. Duplicating the entire contents of a huge -doc subpackage in the base package is a problem. Worse if there is a conflict. The bug reports don't claim there is a conflict _always_. But we encounter Doxygen related conflicts regularly, even during review. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
