<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.32.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:55 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Il giorno lun, 13/06/2011 alle 19.43 -0400, Gaetan Nadon ha scritto: > The content and location of these files are governed by the > GNU Build System architecture. They are expected to be found in the > root directory of the package. They are included in the tarball > automatically by Automake and require no explicit 'dist' action. They don't require (but nothing breaks if there is) an explicit dist action, but they require an explicit install action. Distributions would want to install those files as part of documentation, which is why I moved them to dist_doc_ (the trick here is doc, rather than dist). </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> I had not noticed before, on my distro the README (but not ChangeLog) is installed in doc. ChangeLog definitely does not go with docs. Let the distro speak up if they want us to install. They have been installing this file for years now and never asked for us to do it. It could be worse to have just one module out of 240 doing it differently as it may break their installation process. If a majority of distro want the README file installed, then let's do it everywhere! <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> If they files were considered pointless, setting Automake to foreign would not require their presence at all. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Because a file is not installed, it does not mean it is useless. There is a user/developer audience difference. Not all docs are installed, for instance the server installs only one. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes <A HREF="http://blog.flameeyes.eu/">http://blog.flameeyes.eu/</A> _______________________________________________ <A HREF="mailto:xorg-devel@lists.x.org">xorg-devel@lists.x.org</A>: X.Org development Archives: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel</A> Info: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>