Hi, For almost each review I do where there is a -devel subpackage I get the following warning from rpmlint: W: xxx-devel no-documentation I would like rpmlint to not emit this warning for -devel subpackages (when coding this better make that an array of possible subpackages for which to not emit this, I'm sure once this is in people will think up other subpackages which usualy don't have docs).
I don't see that warning as spurious, but rather a reminder to check if there are some docs available that would be good to have included in the devel subpackage, just like all other packages. One warning per such a package isn't exactly an amount of noise that would make it harder to spot other problems, so I'm inclined to leave this as is. If consensus says this is not good, I'll filter it out, but please initiate public discussion somewhere (fedora-packaging list?) so the consensus can be heard. Implementing this would be trivial, it's already done for -debuginfo packages (which never contain documentation and there's nothing a packager can do about that, so it's a different case), see /usr/share/rpmlint/config.
I've send a mail about this to f-e-l as I'm not on f-p-l.
Personally I'd like to see more man 3 pages for libraries. Perhaps this warning should be considered an error?
Now that I'm a few months older and wiser, I think the warning indeed is just fine as initially indicated by Ville, closing as not a bug. +