[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Tom Callaway  wrote:
> On 12/10/2010 01:03 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> 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?
>
> While I'm not at all opposed to having rpmbuild set chmod -x on
> everything %doc before checking for dependencies, we decided quite a
> while ago that FPC was in the business of working with the RPM we have,
> rather than waiting for RPM to fix itself.
>

If this decision is final, could you folks add an rpmlint check that
spits a warning for executable %doc files? Doing this check manually
might become cumbersome.

Thanks,
Orcan