Doc dir related changes coming up

[Till Maas]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:25:19AM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> The special (pathless) %doc macro now installs docs to unversioned
> /usr/share/doc/%{name} dir in Rawhide. Packages that don't refer to
> their doc dir by any other means do not need any changes, just a
> rebuild.
> 
> Packages that do refer to their doc dir by some other means will need
> changes. It depends on the package if not addressing this will result
> in a build failure or docs still being installed into "wrong"
> (versioned) dirs. Either way the suggested way to handle this is by
> using the %{_pkgdocdir} macro which is now in Rawhide, in
> redhat-rpm-config >= 9.1.0-50.fc20. I'm guessing that this macro might
> be backported to earlier Fedora releases (where it'll expand to a dir
> appropriate for those releases) too at some point, but it is unclear
> when, and also unclear if it will make it into EPEL. Luckily handling

Why is it so hard to just backport this change? And if it needs to be
decided why does FESCO not just do it? Or who needs to decide it?

Regards
Till