RPM

non-versioned %_docdir by default

Bug #911005 reported by Jeff Johnson
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Bug Description

Version is mostly useless clutter in documentation paths.

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In , Tfa7 (tfa7) wrote :

It may make more sense to use only %name for docdir, not %name-%version: it
makes file links less volatile. Debian project may have had more discussions on
that.

Ideally, the behaviour could be controlled by some additional macro
(multidocdir? :) for easier use in packages which are designed to allow
simultaneous installation of several versions.

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In , Jeff Johnson (n3npq) wrote :

tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rpm/+bug/911005

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In , Tfa7 (tfa7) wrote :

Looks like it's been accepted in fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UnversionedDocdirs

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In , Evg-2 (evg-2) wrote :

ldv: ping?

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In , Iv-n (iv-n) wrote :

There was a time when I wanted this so much, because with each update of some packages invalidated a useful portion of my bash and browser history.

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Changed in altlinux:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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