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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 54234@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54234: Dropping versioned docdir for license files?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:56:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o827jp4y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmn3i2cc.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Thu, 03 Mar 2022 08:37:39 -0500")

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’.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-15 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-03 13:37 bug#54234: Dropping versioned docdir for license files? Maxim Cournoyer
2022-03-03 14:43 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-03 15:44   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-03-03 15:59     ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-15 13:55   ` bug#54234: Different license file name Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-15 13:56 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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