Enrico Scholz wrote:
>Therefore, I suggest one of the following rules:
>(a) %doc files MUST not introduce new dependencies, or
ok, I wrote an 'rpmlint' check for this rule:
Example output:
| $ rpmlint openvpn-2.0.5-1.fc4.i386.rpm
| E: openvpn %doc file '/usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.0.5/sample-scripts/auth-pam.pl'
creates additional dependency '/usr/bin/perl'
| E: openvpn %doc file '/usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.0.5/sample-scripts/verify-cn'
creates additional dependency '/usr/bin/perl'
Excellent work and suggestion. I agree with your proposed addition to
rpmlint.
-- Rex