On Friday 06 March 2009, Paul Howarth wrote:
Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
rpmlint warns about this (spurious-executable-perm). But I think rpmlint is wrong.
There are scant guidelines about this - just one oblique reference in a "packaging mistakes" page. There is no convincing explanation I can find as to why including an executable script in documentation is a bad thing.
They sometimes pull in additional dependencies.
FWIW, rpmlint has a separate "doc-file-dependency" check for that.