autofs - patches in %doc?

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Nov 28 10:20:55 UTC 2008


$ du -h /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/*.patch
76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.10-v5-update.patch
76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.11-v5-update.patch
76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.12-v5-update.patch
76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.13-v5-update.patch
76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.14-v5-update.patch
76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.15-v5-update.patch
76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.16-v5-update.patch
28K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.17-v5-update.patch
28K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.18-v5-update.patch
20K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.19-v5-update.patch
16K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.20-v5-update.patch
8.0K    /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.21-v5-update.patch
8.0K    /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.22-v5-update.patch
4.0K    /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.23-v5-update.patch
76K     /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.9-v5-update.patch
4.0K    /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/util-linux-2.12a-flock.patch
4.0K    /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/util-linux-2.12q-flock.patch

[$ du -h autofs-5.0.4/patches
2.0M    autofs-5.0.4/patches
]

So, we've got ~48K of %changelog details in the autofs.spec, but the
question why the %doc line explicitly includes  patches/*  is not answered.
That clutters up the docdir unnecessarily.

Who can tell why this is done?




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