Description of problem: It is a common agreement that packages must work without %doc content (see [1]). This implicates that packages must work without dependencies introduced by %doc files. Therefore, 'rpm' should not generate dependencies for %doc files (at least for Fedora). Especially for small packages it happens often that their core functionality does not have dependencies but %doc contains perl scripts adding a new (and huge) dependency. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.4.1-22 Footnotes: [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageReviewGuidelines | - MUST: If a package includes something as %doc, it must not | affect the runtime of the application. To summarize: If it is in | %doc, the program must run properly if it is not present.
chmod -x /path/to/file disables autodeps. Since when is it necessaryt for doco files to be executable?!?
*** Bug 152262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***