On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:54:07 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I was looking into bug #1114586 and it reveals a significant number (400+) of
> RPM packages which leave empty directories under /usr/share/doc when installed
> with --excludedocs.
>
> I've looked at a few of them and they had either
>
> %dir %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}
> %doc %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/some_file
>
> or
>
> %doc %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}
>
> in their spec files.
They do that so the directory gets _removed_ when *uninstalling* the package.
Did you test that case, too?
> The Packaging Guide doesn't say anything about these name-version directories,
> whether they should be specified in the spec file or only the indivisual files
> specified.
It is ordinary ownership of directories as covered by the guidelines.
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