On 20 November 2014 09:54, Alexander Todorov <atodorov@redhat.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> I've looked at a few of them and they had either
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> %dir %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}
> %doc %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/some_file
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> or
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> %doc %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}
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> in their spec files.
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> The ones which don't leave behind empty directories specify only the documentation files, not the name-version directories as part of the file list.
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> In my test all 400+ directories under /usr/share/doc are empty, no files in them. Obviously we don't need these directories either. It is very likely people who use --excludedocs will complain about these empty directories as well.
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> 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. I'd like to hear your opinion on this packaging situation before I go ahead and file hundreds of bugs into Bugzilla.
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