Bug 7249

Summary:	[FR] non-versioned %_docdir by default
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Michael Shigorin <mike>
Component:	rpm-build	Assignee:	placeholder <placeholder>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	abulava, arseny, erthad, evg, glebfm, gray_graff, icesik, imz, iv, lav, ldv, led, n3npq, placeholder, vt
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description Michael Shigorin 2005-06-29 23:36:08 MSD

It may make more sense to use only %name for docdir, not %name-%version: it
makes file links less volatile.  Debian project may have had more discussions on
that.

Ideally, the behaviour could be controlled by some additional macro
(multidocdir? :) for easier use in packages which are designed to allow
simultaneous installation of several versions.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2012-01-03 02:36:51 MSK

tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rpm/+bug/911005

Comment 2 Michael Shigorin 2013-08-15 18:53:38 MSK

Looks like it's been accepted in fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UnversionedDocdirs

Comment 3 Evgenii Terechkov 2013-12-24 12:03:09 MSK

ldv: ping?

Comment 4 Ivan A. Melnikov 2020-04-06 20:19:30 MSK

There was a time when I wanted this so much, because with each update of some packages invalidated  a useful portion of my bash and browser history.