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

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Jun 14 11:39:17 PDT 2011


Hi,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 02:32:07PM -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 19:12 +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 02:09:55PM -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Oh yes, sorry. I grepped for ChangeLog. Not that I have never seen it
> before (shame).
> So why would we install ChangeLog then? They would be duplicated ar
> distro would have to remove ours?

*shrug*, some people find it useful.

> I don't understand why changing one module would help anyone.

I agree: I think we should change all the modules rather than just doing
something different for one module.  I do know how much you love your
mass commits. :)

Cheers,
Daniel


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