https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020088



--- Comment #20 from Ralf Corsepius <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Michael Schwendt from comment #19)
> > a) On Fedora < 20, the packages are supposed to install their
> > docs to /usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version}
> 
> That's not accurate. If a new package submitter asked where to find that in
> the packaging guidelines, one could not answer that question.
> 
> Documentation files are supposed to be marked as %doc, and when using the
> %doc macro, that one defaults to %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}.
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Documentation
Correct, this needs an update.

> The guidelines don't explicitly request the files to be stored in that path.
> They don't comment on the different path per sub-package either. And some
> source tarballs install into a non-versioned /usr/share/doc/%{name} by
> default, and packagers only sometimes change that. Sometimes they even turn
> a versioned dir into a non-versioned one.

Michael, STOP THAT, please! Common sense and using brains have become rare
events on your side? I feel you have become one of those people, who seem to be
in need of laws and regulations for everything!

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