RPM + packaging bug: many documentation files clobbered

[Michel Salim]

On 28/07/07, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Michel Salim wrote:
>
> > 1. Said packages put their documentation in %{doc}/%{name}-%{version},
> > without %{release}
> > 2. The RPM short-cut, triggered on package deletion, that skips the
> check if
> > a file in /usr/share/ is owned by another package
> > 3. Yum would install the new package, *then* remove the old package
> >
> > Filing a bug against hundreds of packages sure does not look like fun.
> > Suggestions?
>
> No need to file hundreds of bugs when rpm is to blame.
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247749


It's slightly disturbing to see the bug being marked as low-priority.
Hopefully an update will be released for FC6 and RHEL 4/5 too.

Regards,

-- 
Michel
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