[PATCH input-synaptics 2/5] Do not install ChangeLog and README with documentation

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Jun 14 11:12:21 PDT 2011


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 02:09:55PM -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 15:53 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> > Il giorno mar, 14/06/2011 alle 09.46 -0400, Gaetan Nadon ha scritto:
> > > I had not noticed before, on my distro the README (but not ChangeLog)
> > > is installed in doc.
> > > ChangeLog definitely does not go with docs.
> > 
> > Why not? If I install an update I might as well want to know what the
> > update consisted of. The files are just as well important for the user
> > as for the developer.
> 
> I am surprised it has never be done for so many years. I looked around
> in my distro and it does not seem any one is doing it (ChangeLog). 

In fairness, Debian installs the upstream changelog as
/usr/share/doc/packagename/changelog.gz, and the Debian package
changelog as changelog.Debian.gz.

Cheers,
Daniel


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