Bug 714212

Summary: Broken COPYING Information Commands
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: fedora.dm0
Component: emacsAssignee: Karel Klíč <kklic>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: emacs-23.3-10.fc17 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Don't exclude or duplicate COPYING in the RPM spec none

Description fedora.dm0 2011-06-17 15:55:03 UTC
Created attachment 505304 [details]
Don't exclude or duplicate COPYING in the RPM spec

Description of problem:

The file /usr/share/emacs/%{version}/etc/COPYING is excluded from the RPM (used instead as documentation), but the commands describe-no-warranty and describe-copying fail if it is not present.

While it does not interfere with daily usage, it does make the package appear a bit broken--particularly because those two commands are used on the default buffer.


Steps to Reproduce:

C-h C-w or C-h C-c


Additional info:

As the COPYING file in question affects runtime, it probably should not be used solely as documentation.  I see the NEWS file is duplicated between content and documentation, so if that is acceptable, the %exclude line can just be removed to have a copy in both places.  I interpreted the guidelines as to avoid duplicates, so I used the attached to create a symlink for license documentation.  Either solution fixes the problem.

Comment 1 Karel Klíč 2011-09-27 10:03:36 UTC
Thank you.
I have also symlinked the NEWS file.