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Re: [RFU 1.7] nasm-2.06-1


On Jul  1 23:56, Dean Scarff wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
> [...]
> >>>  - should setup.hint have requires: cygwin?  nasm's does.
> >
> >  No, that's now an obsolete practice, it should be removed.  See e.g.:
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-06/msg00145.html
> 
> In that case:
> 
> http://scarff.id.au/file/cygwin/nasm/setup.hint
> 
> >>>  - should it be /usr/share/doc/nasm or /usr/share/doc/nasm-2.06? nasm's
> >>>    is the former
> >> 
> >> Every package seems to have its own idea how to name the doc dir.  It's
> >> not *that* important.  I guess the better approach is to omit the
> >> version.  After all, you usually have just one of the packages installed
> >> and the user doesn't exactly care for the actual version of the package
> >> when looking for the docs.
> >
> >  Omitting the version number is the new convention; see the thread: "[RFC]
> > 1.7 Packaging: Documentation":
> >
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-08/threads.html#00081
> 
> Thanks for the references, guess I didn't search hard enough. ;)
> 
> Not sure whether there's a "setup2.html" in reserve, but when the time
> comes, I've attached a patch for setup.html for these two issues.

I checked that in.


Thanks,
Corinna

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