Duplicate documentation files / potentially conflicting

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 08:39:21AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> End of August I've opened tickets about duplicate and potentially
> conflicting (because if noarch <-> arch differences) %doc files.
> The response from packagers has not been brilliant so far.
> 
> These are _package bugs_ specific to Fedora, so it's the responsibility
> of a Fedora Packager to fix them. It's a mistake in the spec file, not
> in the packaged software.
> 
> "Potentially conflicting" may mean that several subpackages could not
> be installed at once and would cause a transaction error.
> 
> Rather than spamming bugzilla with lots of NEEDINFO calls, hereby I'd
> like to raise awareness of the issue. I don't understand why packagers
> don't respond in bugzilla. Fedora 20 is near.

I've read this several times, and

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UnversionedDocdirs

and I still don't understand what this message means.  How would this
cause subpackage conflicts?  What has arch/noarch got to do with
anything?  Can you point to an example of a packaging problem?

Rich.

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