It would be a good idea to have CloudStack itself install LICENSE, NOTICE,
NEWS, etc into /user/share/doc anyway. If this were the case, debian/rules
would not have to specifically move anything into place, because it is the
default.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@citrix.com> wrote:
>
> On 26-Sep-2012, at 1:34 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Questions for the packaging folks:
> >
> > Should our reference package configs include the LICENSE and NOTICE
> > files from the root of the repo as part of the installed files for the
> > software?
>
> Do we need these files, both of them, or use small version of the
> license, like the debian/copyright
>
> For debian packages, all such (changelog, license, NEWS) files should go
> into /usr/share/doc/${artifactId}/
> Thanks, I'll configure the maven deb/rpm plugins to put top level
> ${project.parent.basedir}/ LICENSE files to these paths.
>
> >
> > If so, do we do that already for Deb packages? I'm not too familiar
> > with DEB packaging (I'm a .spec guy myself), but I didn't see those
> > files specifically called out anywhere.
>
> Old debs which were created by waf used to include the license/copyright
> file.
> Currently, dpkgbuild/debuild does not copy those files, though we already
> have the copyright file in the debian/
> I think all we need to do is add: dh_installdocs
> to the debian/rules
>
> @Wido: Can you please check the rules file and help us to include those
> files for deb packaging?
>
> For rpms, we can have this in cloud.spec for each package, will post a
> patch:
> %doc debian/copyright
> %doc <path to file to be included>
>
> >
> > Also if so, we'll need to add those files to cloud.spec.
>
> +1
>
> >
> > -chip
>
>
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