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Comment 8 for bug 635478

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In , Yi-y-yang (yi-y-yang) wrote :

(In reply to comment #3)
> (comment from the tracker bug)
>
> Are you sure "COPYRIGHT" and "README" need additional
> marking in *.rpm metadata? The names are already self identifying
> markup.

These files should be installed even if we use --excludedoc, but now they are marked as %doc in .spec.

>
> But if you need %license/%readme to be set automagically when
> files are named as above, that's about 4 lines of code to patch
> into rpmbuild (ignoring the possibility of false positives from mis-named
> files for the moment).

This is a good suggestion and can reduce our effort dramatically :-)