Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta(a)iki.fi> wrote:
On Thursday 09 December 2010, Tom Callaway wrote:
> The guidelines have been updated to indicate that %doc files must not
> have executable permissions.
Why? If they (example scripts etc) don't add any dependencies that aren't
already in the package's dependency chain, what is the problem solved by this
guideline, and how do you propose handling these files instead?
I think these are those that are installed via the %doc line that is
usually used to include files like LICENSE and README. Files under
%{_docdir} should be allowed to be executable (example scripts using
some interface (uzbl does this)), but I would think these are usually
installed by the package itself or handled in the %install step with
manual install commands.
--Ben