Hi Maxime, Maxime Devos writes: > Maxim Cournoyer schreef op do 03-03-2022 om 08:37 [-0500]: >> It seems to me it'd be nicer to have both agree on the same docdir.  We >> could drop the version and use gnu-build-system's docdir, or alter the >> default gnu-build-system docdir to use a versioned output.  The later >> some more troublesome, as we'd have to do the same adjustment for each >> build system, and I'm not convinced of the value added.  So I'd suggest >> we simply normalize to use the standard docdir. >> >> What do you think? > > This does not really answer your question, but if we do this, we could > combine this with another change: > > Some software does not work with a COPYING or LICENSE file, or they do > but also have other relevant licenses. E.g., gnunet-scheme follows > REUSE and puts the license texts in a LICENSES directory and some extra > information in '.reuse/dep5'. It would be nice if those were copied > as well. What is REUSE? > Also, to partially answer your question: probably not all > gnu-build-system packages actually implement the 'docdir' option > and might even error out if it is passed. Fixing these build failures > might be tedious. Even the packages using their own configure script probably would install their doc under /share/doc/$name/ as this is the standard on FHS distribution. I'm not suggesting to tweak docdir, I'm suggesting to use the default, non-versioned value. Thanks, Maxim