[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Ben Boeckel]

Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 December 2010, Tom Callaway wrote:
> 
>> The guidelines have been updated to indicate that %doc files must not
>> have executable permissions.
> 
> Why?  If they (example scripts etc) don't add any dependencies that aren't 
> already in the package's dependency chain, what is the problem solved by this 
> guideline, and how do you propose handling these files instead?

I think these are those that are installed via the %doc line that is
usually used to include files like LICENSE and README. Files under
%{_docdir} should be allowed to be executable (example scripts using
some interface (uzbl does this)), but I would think these are usually
installed by the package itself or handled in the %install step with
manual install commands.

--Ben