Am 09.01.22 um 06:10 schrieb mpan via arch-general:

  If anything is missing, consider filing a bug report to gawk developers at .

Why should upstream follow Arch's rules when installing? It is the responsibility of the Arch maintainer to provide the README file in the right place -- when it is useful, as in this case. Regards, Uwe

On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 13:31:16 +0100, Uwe Koloska via arch-general wrote:

Am 09.01.22 um 06:10 schrieb mpan via arch-general:

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  If anything is missing, consider filing a bug report to gawk developers at .

Why should upstream follow Arch's rules when installing? It is the responsibility of the Arch maintainer to provide the README file in the right place -- when it is useful, as in this case.

If the README is useful for the user who doesn't compile it herself, then it makes no sense to expect that packagers need to care about something upstream stripped, especially not if upstream is the GNU project. To my knowledge it is the GNU project that expects that everything necessary to build or run software is included by the source in an easy to understand way and in a way making it easy to get, hence forming an opinion what to include to a package, that is stripped by upstream shouldn't be needed. However, what do I miss that makes the README useful for end users? https://github.com/gvlx/gawk/blob/master/README To my understanding it contains information useful for somebody compiling or packaging it, but it's useless for the end user who installed it by a package.

On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 13:31:16 +0100, Uwe Koloska via arch-general wrote:

Am 09.01.22 um 06:10 schrieb mpan via arch-general:

...

  If anything is missing, consider filing a bug report to gawk developers at .

Why should upstream follow Arch's rules when installing? It is the responsibility of the Arch maintainer to provide the README file in the right place -- when it is useful, as in this case.

As others have stated, the README contains information only relevant for people who build awk, but not so much for the end users. Moreover, Arch mostly tries to distribute software with little or no modifications to the original source (unless absolutely required to make it work). So if upstream chooses not to install the README as part of `make install`, I don't think it's the responsibility of the Arch maintainers to change that. Cheers, Tinu