Re: Non-%doc files in %{_defaultdocdir}?

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John Morris wrote:

> My goal for the forthcoming LinuxCNC release is readiness for inclusion
> in both Fedora and Debian.
> 
> Right now, a "sample-configs" directory is installed into
> ${prefix}/share/doc/linuxcnc/examples.
> 
> This is a typical pattern, at first glance, but it turns out that the
> GUIs actually present these as base configurations to users, and do bad
> things when they are not present.
> 
> The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are clear that these files must not be
> marked as %doc [1].

I don't interpret it that way at all.  These are *example* configs, marking 
them as documentation is perfectly ok.  That is, unless these are actually 
expected to exist at runtime?  (If so, I'd argue that's a bug in the 
software).

-- Rex

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