Comment 11 for bug 638596

(In reply to comment #7)
> Documentation is for humans to read. If a script is truly just documentation
> then packaging it as executable is just as much a defect as packaging man pages
> with executable bits set. But that's well into the land of "spec and packaging
> hygiene and policies" department which I've zero interest in arguing over, and
> little to do with the actual issue here.

In this case, the included scripts under %_docdir are not marked as executable; Ralf's comment that bits under %_docdir shouldn't be scanned for dep tracking is with merit, methinks.

The real issue here is that this change in behaviour has potential implications for dep/req generation for all packages in Fedora with anything under %_docdir that was previously not scanned.

I would think a good resolution for this would either be:

1) revert to the prior behaviour; or
2) allow certain directories to be easily excluded from autodep/prov, and default %_docdir to being excluded.

Personally, I'd prefer #2 :)