Re: [libvirt-dbus PATCH 8/9] meson: Install documentation

On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 15:30 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 04:16:57PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 15:38 +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote: > > > I've checked systemd and they are installing these files using meson but > > > GLib for example is not installing them. > > > > > > After checking other libvirt projects we are not installing this files > > > using autotools or other build systems. > > > > I can bring up another counter-example that's close to us: QEMU > > installs these files, along with a bunch of other documentation. > > QEMU isn't a good example of best practice as it is a completely > custom written set of build system rules. The fact that it accomplishes something using a custom set of tools doesn't automatically make the result not a good idea. > > The packaging for both Fedora and Debian go out of their way to > > include them, and at least for the latter it's strongly recommended > > by policy to include NEWS while including COPYING is mandatory. > > Clearly both projects consider this information important to users, > > and I don't see any disadvantage in installing them even for people > > who build from sources directly instead of using a package, only > > advantages really. > > I think these are different situations though. Distro vendors include > the files because the end users don't have any direct visibility of > the source tarball. So the only way users would see the files is if > the binary packages included them. I don't think that extends to > building from source in general & don't see a need for us to do this > specially in the libvirt-dbus module, or indeed our other modules > in general. The fact that something is not strictly needed doesn't automatically make it not worth pursuing. Anyway, I don't care enough about this to keep the discussion going any further, so I'm just going to go ahead and revert the change. Can we have a libvirt-dbus release now? :)