Executable example scripts in documentation
Dan Horák
dan at danny.cz
Fri Mar 6 10:39:04 UTC 2009
Paul Howarth píše v Pá 06. 03. 2009 v 10:34 +0000:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487527#c3
> >
> > The above review is blocked because I want to include three example
> > scripts in the documentation, and I want them to be executable so that
> > people can run them without an unnecessary extra step.
> >
> > rpmlint warns about this (spurious-executable-perm). But I think rpmlint
> > is wrong.
> >
> > There are scant guidelines about this - just one oblique reference in
> > a "packaging mistakes" page. There is no convincing explanation I can
> > find as to why including an executable script in documentation is a
> > bad thing.
>
> They sometimes pull in additional dependencies.
When they are e.g. Perl script, that's the main reason IIRC
Dan
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