On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:53:22 +0200
Till Maas <opensource(a)till.name> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:25:19AM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> The special (pathless) %doc macro now installs docs to unversioned
> /usr/share/doc/%{name} dir in Rawhide. Packages that don't refer to
> their doc dir by any other means do not need any changes, just a
> rebuild.
>
> Packages that do refer to their doc dir by some other means will
> need changes. It depends on the package if not addressing this will
> result in a build failure or docs still being installed into "wrong"
> (versioned) dirs. Either way the suggested way to handle this is by
> using the %{_pkgdocdir} macro which is now in Rawhide, in
> redhat-rpm-config >= 9.1.0-50.fc20. I'm guessing that this macro
> might be backported to earlier Fedora releases (where it'll expand
> to a dir appropriate for those releases) too at some point, but it
> is unclear when, and also unclear if it will make it into EPEL.
> Luckily handling
Why is it so hard to just backport this change? And if it needs to be
decided why does FESCO not just do it? Or who needs to decide it?
Well, The redhat-rpm-config maintainer is on vacation right now.
I guess I could push an update to earlier releases, do you have a
tested patch? ;)
kevin