[Fedora-packaging] Docs outside %docdir

[Jiri Vanek]

Have no Ida how this email come to me:)
But - best way is to let them pass to doc dir, and link them from the 
location where program expect them, so both sides are satisfied.

Regards J.
Redhar cz

On 11/28/2010 08:39 PM, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> Hi all,
>      I was performing a package review for RPM Fusion:
> http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1153
>
> RPM Fusion follows the Fedora Packaging Guidelines so I think I can
> ask here a question it came to me during the review.
>
> This package has some exec files correctly installed by the packager
> in %libexecdir/packagename/bin instead of %libdir/packagename/bin
> because they are called by the main program who sits in %bindir.
>
> The files in %libexecdir use some files in
> %libexecdir/packagename/doc to show help, options, examples, etc when
> called with some parameters.
>
> Is it acceptable to leave these files here? Or they should be moved
> somewhere else?
>
> They cannot be installed in %docdir because they affect the runtime of
> the application:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Documentation
>
> Thanks in advance for you help.
>
> Bye,
>
> Andrea.
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