A purely cosmetic problem, but elmo installs Makefiles along with the docs due to the wildcard in dodoc. The patch attached fixes that. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 51587 [details, diff] elmo-broken-docs.patch
I've already had an unconclusive discussion about this before: if upstream considers Makefiles as docs (at least they put them in the docs folder, didn't they?), should I really change that? Personally I don't really care...
*Sigh* The Makefile is in the docs directory because upstream has chosen to use separate Makefiles for each subdirectory, not because it is a document. A cursory glance shows that is does actually install a file from that subdirectory, so even with your reasoning you should perhaps be installing them in ${D}/usr/share/elmo not ${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF}. I wonder why you aren't choosing to install configure/config.status/$other_autotools_cruft as well? It would amount to the same thing. With such an obvious and easy fix I don't see why installing cruft is an acceptable solution. I mean even if it is about command line length it wouldn't take more than about 30 seconds to wildcard the directory and then force a remove of the useless files. Still it is your decision :/
Ok, I took over maintainance of elmo because it hadn't had a maintainer at that point in time [1]. I don't really use this myself, and therefore never really bothered to check out what this Makefiles are for. I will apply that fix tomorrow, but please stop going all "*sigh*" and "cruft" on such minor things. But sometimes when you have little time for Gentoo development, you just spend it on the packages you actually use yourself and find interesting. [1] If anyone wants it, I'm the last who wants to keep maintaining this.
Hi, I just submitted a new version of the ebuild which has your patch applied. In the process I also removed COPYING, because all the licenses can be found at /usr/portage/licenses. Please note that I *didn't* revision bump the ebuild, because the few kB saved aren't worth a recompile for most of the people I guess. If you want the files to go away, just remerge the package once it hits the mirrors. BTW: I gave up maintainership of elmo, because I'm really not interested in the package any more. This also explains my reluctance to actually look into the issue you've pointed out, which led to my rather unqualified comment I've made yesterday. Sorry for that!
