On 26-Sep-2012, at 1:34 AM, Chip Childers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Questions for the packaging folks:
>
> Should our reference package configs include the LICENSE and NOTICE
> files from the root of the repo as part of the installed files for the
> software?
Do we need these files, both of them, or use small version of the license,
like the debian/copyright
For debian packages, all such (changelog, license, NEWS) files should go into
/usr/share/doc/${artifactId}/
Thanks, I'll configure the maven deb/rpm plugins to put top level
${project.parent.basedir}/ LICENSE files to these paths.
>
> If so, do we do that already for Deb packages? I'm not too familiar
> with DEB packaging (I'm a .spec guy myself), but I didn't see those
> files specifically called out anywhere.
Old debs which were created by waf used to include the license/copyright file.
Currently, dpkgbuild/debuild does not copy those files, though we already have
the copyright file in the debian/
I think all we need to do is add: dh_installdocs
to the debian/rules
@Wido: Can you please check the rules file and help us to include those files
for deb packaging?
For rpms, we can have this in cloud.spec for each package, will post a patch:
%doc debian/copyright
%doc <path to file to be included>
>
> Also if so, we'll need to add those files to cloud.spec.
+1
>
> -chip
