On 2007-09-03 15:57:47 +0200, N_Ox wrote:
Recent autotools-based package doc directories default to ${name}-${version} (see libogg and libvorbis).
But why did they do such a change? Note that this is a setting that comes from these particular packages, not from the autotools: libogg-1.1.3/doc/Makefile.am contains: docdir = $(datadir)/doc/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) AFAIK, this is not standard, as the default autoconf sets the default to DATAROOTDIR/doc/$(PACKAGE). Unless this has changed recently...
Also, I love to have maximum informations about my installed packages in the documentation directory and version _is_ an important information.
This can be done in some other way, though (e.g. a VERSION file in the doc directory, or the NEWS file...).
Last, you do can have multiple versions of the same package, see automake
OK, but packages like automake are different: version information is included everywhere, including in the binary, and only the major version (e.g. 1.10, not 1.10.x).
and all, including version in docdir for only a few packages seems quite awkward and inconsistent to me.
Because for automake, there is a reason, and this is not even the version, but the package name. For instance, concerning automake17, you have ${prefix}/share/doc/automake17, not ${prefix}/share/doc/automake17-1.7.9. Ditto for DocBook: you have different incompatible versions, but it makes sense to have them installed at the same time. For consistency, it would be better to stick with the autotools standard. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)