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

[Diego Elio Pettenò]

Il giorno mar, 14/06/2011 alle 14.09 -0400, Gaetan Nadon ha scritto:

> 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). 

Gentoo has done so since ever; on the other hand we ignore INSTALL files
(unless they have runtime configuration instructions as well) and
COPYING (since licenses are handled separately0.

> A big surprise, I have never heard about it before despite a good
> number of distro maintainer on the xorg-devel list.

Turns out that most of the time distro maintainers tend to prefer
working around the lack of installation within their rules rather than
trying to find how to make the build system follow that.

> My conclusion is that I am ok with the installation of the README
> (distros are doing it), but I would need more convincing for ChangeLog
> as I have not seen any on Debian. I am under the impression that
> distros totally rearrange packaging so it may not be helpful to do it.

That depends really on distro to distro, Daniel implies that the
ChangeLog is renamed changelog before compressing, and I don't know how
Debian handles that, whether it is automatic or would be more work to
install the file as is.

Gentoo simply follows upstream filenames without issues there.

> Just want to throw a good but unrelated example here. A while back, at
> the initiative of a distro builder and with the help of a few others,
> we have reworked the configuration options for the 20 modules
> containing documentation, created a few XORG macros.

I wouldn't mind helping out with converting the rest of the modules to
recursive make (I'll address the concerns in the other mail asap, being
a bit swamped out tonight), honestly.

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