[Rpm-maint] Re: [Fedora-packaging] %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/ %doc?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Paul Nasrat wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 22:08 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 18:28 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>> Should files under %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html be marked as %doc?  They are
>>> API docs for libraries which are extracted using the gtk-doc toolset and
>>> viewable in devhelp.  I've never seen a set of files that was necessary
>>> for the runtime operation of a library (and doubt that I will... they're
>>> API docs and usually included in a -devel subpackage.)  On my current
>>> system I haven't found any files in %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html that are
>>> marked as %doc.
>>
>> They should be considered %doc, yes.  But the right way to do so is to
>> get it added to the list of docDirs within rpm.  Attached patch should
>> do it.
>
> To be honest rather than a hard coded list in files.c we probably want a
> configurable list of dirs as a macro so policy can be site/distro/os
> specific.

Indeed. Not something we can do for 4.4.2.1 though, so applied and added a 
reminder to get rid of those hardcoded things to the todo.

 	- Panu -