[Frugalware-devel] subpkgs vs docs

[Gabriel C]

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> hi,
> 

Hey :)

> here is an issue: we do some automated aggregation for documentation
> (README, LICENSE, AUTHORS and other files) for packages, but in case
> there are subpackages, these always go to the main pkg, so there will be
> even no LICENSE file in subpkgs. this may or may not problematic. i
> think this is problematic when the main pkg is a dummy package and users
> only use the subpkgs.
> 
> here are possible solutions:
> 
> 1) do nothing and wait till somebody claims about it

Well :p Did so already =)

> 
> 2) duplicate the LICENSE, etc. files in each subpkgs (this is what
> Debian does iirc)

That may be the easier solution from all ( 2 line of code or so have to change in makepkg when we go for only 2))

> 
> 3) create a separate -docs subpkg for these files (i think this is
> horrible :) )

Yepp , as I said on IRC foo-license package and make all the stuff rodepends on it but heh ..

> 
> in fact i do not like any of these. maybe you have a better idea? :)

In fact I don't like that as well but we have to do something about.

I think we could do in fact 2 and 3 and let the developer decide in what way he want provide the LICENSE
files for such packages. E.g: add a new option like sublicense and do nothing by default but check for it
and if foo package has subpackages but sublicense is not set nor an foo-license subpackage exists error out
with a nice message and point to the man page or alike.

Sounds crazy he ? =)

> 
> thanks,
> - VMiklos


crazy