363519 – repoman could warn about /usr/share/doc/${P}

Bug 363519 - repoman could warn about /usr/share/doc/${P}

Summary: repoman could warn about /usr/share/doc/${P}

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Repoman (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2011-04-13 23:12 UTC by Hanno Böck
Modified:	2022-07-12 03:18 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2011-04-13 23:12:23 UTC

I recently stepped upon a bug where an ebuild wanted to move documentation into
/usr/share/doc/${P}

Which is wrong. Documentation goes into
/usr/share/doc/${PF}
but that likely get's unnoticed, especially for packages that get upstream bumps often and rarely get -r1-versions in Gentoo.

This could easily be checked with repoman. There should be no valid reason to ever use /usr/share/doc/${P} for anything, so if this string appears in an ebuild, it almost certainly is a bug.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2022-07-12 03:18:14 UTC

repoman support has been removed per bug 835013.

Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.