[Fedora-packaging] COPYING (license) not under docdir
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sun Jul 23 21:25:30 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 23:17 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm reviewing a package where the license file is under %{_datadir}
> beacuse the gtk GUI needs to display it. Moving it to %doc is bad as
> the application would be dependent on %doc content. But not having it
> in %doc is bad, too, as this is the canonical place someone will query
> the license text.
>
> IMHO in this case it should be doubled. Do you agree?
I don't see a problem with duplicating it but is there any problem with
a symlink from %_datadir to the docdir?
-sv
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