On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Vladimir Nadvornik wrote:

> On st?eda 22 srpen 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 21. August 2007, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > 1) The "simple" example at the end does not take into account where %doc
> > > files should go (AUTHORS, COPYING, README) etc.
> >
> > not into the library package, no.
> >
> 
> Why not?
> 
> These files would go into /usr/share/doc/<packname>. There should not be any 
> conflict as long as there is no conflict in package names.
> 
> IMHO having these files installed even if the library was pulled in by 
> dependencies makes sense.

It depends.  At least we are very inconsistent here, both with respect
to licenses and other stuff.  (At least Debian duplicates a set of
standard files including the license and the package changelog in every
sub-package)

Richard.

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