[Fedora-packaging] Documentation packages and explicit Requires

Richard Fearn richardfearn at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 10:50:01 UTC 2015


> And while on the subject of documentation packages but unrelated to
> the deps issue, standardizing naming on -doc would be nice, the former
> is more common and used by other distros.

Do you think that should apply to javadoc packages too? At the moment,
the Java packaging guidelines say:

  "Java API documentation MUST be placed into a sub-package called
%{name}-javadoc."

which is much stronger than the general recommendation that
documentation should go into a -doc package.

Regards,

Richard

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Richard Fearn
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