On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:45:55 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote: > Do we want to fix these packages which don't fully comply > with --excludedocs or don't really care about them ? Well, it cannot be fixed easily with _removal_ of directory ownership in the packages. It would likely need to be handled in RPM itself (which btw does not mark directories as %doc but just files). [...] If you want a fix in the spec files, they would need to abandon including doc files with means other than plain %doc for local files from builddir. In some packages that is done, and even the old-school hack to move installed doc files into $(pwd)/_tmp_docs for later including it via %doc _tmp_docs is used actively. But in other cases, the %_docdir/%name-%version path is mentioned not only in doc files but also somewhere in the application. Some packagers don't like patching it to make it non-versioned. And theoretically, there could be corner-cases, where a %doc file is stored somewhere outside %_docdir, and you would want the dir ownership even for the --excludedocs scenario, if the user or another package also may store files in that dir. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
