Weird packaging policies (Was: [users] Circular obsoletes between Dries and FE6 rrdtool Perl bindings)

[Steve Huff]

On Dec 6, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:

>> Can FC please remove the package version numbers from the  
>> directories in
>> /usr/share/doc and have a policy that each package should have a  
>> directory in
>> /usr/share/doc?  Using this directory has been used so seldom that  
>> I rarely
>> even look there anymore on RH based systems now.
>
> That would be a nice suggestion to make as well, especially because  
> the
> version number makes it impossible to have persistent links from eg.
> documentation and websites.

alternately, in %post do a 'ln -s %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}-% 
{version} %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}'?  that way anything that depends  
on the previous behavior will remain the same, but there will also be  
a persistent link to the latest version of the package documentation.

-steve

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