Proposal - location of LICENSE and README files
Hi,
all rubygems put their README and LICENSE files in %{gem_instdir}. This is opposed to all
other packages, which put such
files into %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}. And all users and developers expect those files
in this directory. Of course
but ruby developers who expect them in %{gem_instdir}.
Therefore I propose to put into Ruby guidelines this scriplet to unify this behavior:
```
%install
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_pkgdocdir}
for docfile in README; do
mv %{buildroot}%{gem_instdir}/$docfile %{buildroot}%{_pkgdocdir}
ln -s %{_pkgdocdir}/$docfile %{buildroot}%{gem_instdir}
done
%files
%doc %{gem_instdir}/README
%doc %{_pkgdocdir}/README
```
and put this text into ruby guidelines:
```
All documentation files, which resides in %{gem_instdir}, should be moved to
%{_pkgdocdir}. Symbolic link from
%{gem_instdir}/<moved file> to %{_pkgdocdir}/<moved file> should be created.
This especially apply on README and LICENSE
files.
```
Obviously the choice is to have symlink from %{gem_instdir} to %{_pkgdocdir}. Or from
%{_pkgdocdir} to %{gem_instdir}.
I choosed the first option as those doc files are not needed for runtime and IMO should
not be located in %{gem_instdir}
and it should be located under /usr/share/doc as all other packages do.
Opinions?
--
Miroslav Suchy, RHCE, RHCDS
Red Hat, Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys