[Fedora-packaging] Do we need a Rule "Docs should be packaged as %doc"?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Hi!

Subject says it all. Reason for this idea:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199108#c33

Quote:
>> > I will prefer not to move docs from /usr/share/gutenprint/doc to
>> > /usr/share/doc/gutenprint.
>> 
>> Hmmm, we don't seem to have anything in the guidelines for this AFAICS. But IMHO
>> all docs should be marked as %doc and thus should land in
>> /usr/share/doc/<packagename-version-release> (the proper place used by all other
>> packages)
>> 
>> Maybe we need to add such a rule :-/
> 
> Sure if you think like that. Primary looking at package said me that let that
> doc files be in /usr/share/gutenprint/doc
> Then i check under /usr/share on my system using
> find . -name doc * and i got following output
> ./sane/xsane/doc
> ./cups/doc
> ./apps/quanta/doc
> ./sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.69.1-5/htmlhelp/doc
> ./scrollkeeper/doc
> ./vim/vim70/doc
> ./eclipse/plugins/org.python.pydev_0.9.3/PySrc/ThirdParty/logilab/common/doc
> ./eclipse/plugins/org.python.pydev_0.9.3/PySrc/ThirdParty/logilab/pylint/doc
> ./pear/doc
> ./gutenprint/doc
> where some of the entries belongs to Fedora Core packages.
> 
> So it looks to me that either we have different strategy for Fedora Extras or we
> have some Guidelines that will require a major changes when a package moves from
> Fedora Extras to Fedora Core. Then i would like to see that Guidelines page.

CU
thl