Bug 234488 – x11-proto/compositeproto installs fills into 2 directories under /usr/share/doc

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164917
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description mren 2008-08-11 18:20:25 UTC]

--- /usr/share/doc/compositeproto/
>>> /usr/share/doc/compositeproto/compositeproto.txt.bz2
--- /usr/share/doc/compositeproto-0.4/
>>> /usr/share/doc/compositeproto-0.4/ChangeLog.bz2

I think that 2 files should go into only one subdir

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) 2008-08-12 09:46:23 UTC]

As in most packages, /usr/share/doc/${PN) (in this case /usr/share/doc/compositeproto) is used by upstream's build system to install docs. Some of our ebuilds install some extra docs like README, ChangeLog, etc and do it by default in /usr/share/doc/${P} (in this case /usr/share/doc/compositeproto-0.4).

I doubt anyone is going to change this on a per-package basis unless there's a proposal to change this scheme in a more global way.

Anyway, thanks for reporting ;-)

[Comment 2 Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) 2008-08-12 19:19:59 UTC]

After a second thought, I'm assigning this to x11 team just in case they actually want to fix it in their packages.

And CCing QA in case they want to give an opinion about it.

[Comment 3 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2008-09-01 18:41:40 UTC]

Seems silly to have it install to 2 directories, but I have no strong opinion either way.

[Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-02-27 19:37:35 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 164917 ***