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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473874
--- Comment #10 from Chris Weyl cweyl@alumni.drew.edu 2008-12-01 12:13:59 EDT --- (In reply to comment #7)
Documentation is for humans to read. If a script is truly just documentation then packaging it as executable is just as much a defect as packaging man pages with executable bits set. But that's well into the land of "spec and packaging hygiene and policies" department which I've zero interest in arguing over, and little to do with the actual issue here.
In this case, the included scripts under %_docdir are not marked as executable; Ralf's comment that bits under %_docdir shouldn't be scanned for dep tracking is with merit, methinks.
The real issue here is that this change in behaviour has potential implications for dep/req generation for all packages in Fedora with anything under %_docdir that was previously not scanned.
I would think a good resolution for this would either be:
1) revert to the prior behaviour; or 2) allow certain directories to be easily excluded from autodep/prov, and default %_docdir to being excluded.
Personally, I'd prefer #2 :)