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bug#54234: Dropping versioned docdir for license files?
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#54234: Dropping versioned docdir for license files? |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:56:13 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
> Recently while packaging sysbench, I noticed that the gnu-build-system's
> docdir expands to 'share/doc/name', while the 'install-license-files'
> phase installs the license files to 'share/doc/name-version' instead:
[...]
> It seems to me it'd be nicer to have both agree on the same docdir. We
> could drop the version and use gnu-build-system's docdir, or alter the
> default gnu-build-system docdir to use a versioned output. The later
> some more troublesome, as we'd have to do the same adjustment for each
> build system, and I'm not convinced of the value added. So I'd suggest
> we simply normalize to use the standard docdir.
Fine with me! We can do that in ‘core-updates’.
Ludo’.