jvcelak recently pointed out that the rubygems package does not own /usr/share/gems/doc . This was news to me. I guess this changed earlier this year:

commit 1d350ea912e72d30c7d079449db926ed4cb652a9 Author: TASAKA Mamoru mtasaka@localhost.localdomain Date: Mon Feb 25 18:05:45 2013 +0900

Split out ri-generated documentation

I have a workstation that I updated from Fedora 17 to 19, and while I don't have rubygems-doc installed, I still have a /usr/share/gems/doc directory on this computer:

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/gems/doc file /usr/share/gems/doc is not owned by any package

So this looks like something broke there :(

My bigger question is what to do about the Fedora Package Guidelines. jvcelak pointed out that the requirement "Package must own all directories that it creates" means that simply installing "rubygems" is no longer enough to satisfy the dependency for my rubygem's -doc subpackage. All rubygem-*-doc subpackages must now also require rubygems-doc in order to comply with this guideline. (I have confirmed that adding Requires: rubygems-doc to my -doc subpackage will silence the warning from fedora-review.)

Can we please make the main rubygems RPM provide an empty %dir /usr/share/gems/doc? This would avoid the need to change all the rubygems packages that ship a -doc subpackage. It would also avoid the unnecessary installation of rubygems-doc whenever installing a single gem's -doc subpackage.

- Ken