Doc dir related changes coming up

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:53:22 +0200
Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:

> 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?

Well, The redhat-rpm-config maintainer is on vacation right now. 

I guess I could push an update to earlier releases, do you have a
tested patch? ;) 

kevin
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