[Fedora-packaging] ownership of /usr/share/gtk-doc

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 06/16/2010 06:44 PM, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> Jason L Tibbitts III wrote, at 06/17/2010 12:37 AM +9:00:
>>>>>>> "RD" == Rex Dieter<rdieter at math.unl.edu>   writes:
>>
>> RD>   See tracking bug, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604169
>> RD>   Seems an enterprising soul mass-filed bugs arguing packages placing
>> RD>   content under /usr/share/gtk-doc doesn't necessarily need to
>> RD>   Requires: gtk-doc
>>
>> Do the guidelines not already cover this case?
>>
>> "Multiple packages own files in a common directory but none of them
>> needs to require the others."
>>
>> All of the packages should simply own /usr/share/gtk-doc.
>
> On rawhide
>
> # repoquery --whatprovides '/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/*' | sort | cat -n
>
> currently returns *206 packages* and making all of them own
> /usr/share/gtk-doc/html must clearly regarded as a bug in the packaging
> in the distibution
Why? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

 > As /usr/share/gtk-doc/html is so common
No it's not "so common", it's just one directory amongst many.

Ralf