[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Ville Skyttä 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?
>

Wouldn't it be better if this issue is solved on the rpmbuild side
instead of putting it as extra work on packagers?

rpmbuild can call either chmod -x on the %doc files at the end; or if
the problem is just the dependencies added by executable %doc files,
then rpmbuild can be taught to not scan the %doc files for generating
dependencies. If no, why not?

Orcan