Duplicate documentation files / potentially conflicting

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 11:46:57 UTC 2013


On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 09:45:27 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> 
> You could link to a bug and give an example of a packaging problem.
> Anyway, I give up.

Why so hostile?

If the entire contents of a -doc subpackage are duplicated in the base
package accidentally, that _is_ a packaging problem. You could point the
finger at RPM/rpmbuild, but I won't go down that road. More packagers
have been responding meanwhile, so _that_ is productive.


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