mark pod files as %doc?

[Patrice Dumas]

Hello,

There are some .pod files below /usr/lib/perl5/. I guess they correspond
with pod documentation that is not associated with some code. Should
they be marked as %doc? If so maybe this could be done automatically?

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Pat

[Chris Grau]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:25:33AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>  There are some .pod files below /usr/lib/perl5/. I guess they
>  correspond with pod documentation that is not associated with some
>  code. Should they be marked as %doc? If so maybe this could be done
>  automatically? 
Which means they'd be installed under /usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version},
right?  The usual reason those .pod files exist is so they can be viewed
using perldoc, which searches @INC for .pm and .pod files.

That said, I don't know.  I've seen some that have no reason to be
installed and others that do.  It wouldn't be a huge burden to use
perldoc to view a .pod file in the /usr/share/doc area instead.  The
user would just have to know to look there.

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Chris Grau

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> >>>> "CG" == Chris Grau
> <chris(a)chrisgrau.com&gt; writes: 
CG> Which means they'd be installed under
CG> /usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version}, right?

No, it means they'd be marked as %doc and therefore wouldn't be
installed with an --excludedocs install.

 - J<

[Chris Grau]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:09:00AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>  >>>>> "CG" == Chris Grau
> <chris(a)chrisgrau.com&gt; writes:
>  
>  CG> Which means they'd be installed under
>  CG> /usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version}, right?
>  
>  No, it means they'd be marked as %doc and therefore wouldn't be
>  installed with an --excludedocs install. 
Oh.  In that case, I don't see why .pod files shouldn't be marked as
%doc.

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Chris Grau

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:09:00AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>  >>>>> "CG" == Chris Grau
> <chris(a)chrisgrau.com&gt; writes:
>  
>  CG> Which means they'd be installed under
>  CG> /usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version}, right?
>  
>  No, it means they'd be marked as %doc and therefore wouldn't be
>  installed with an --excludedocs install. 
Indeed, that's what I was thinking.

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Pat