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diff --git a/README_BDIST_RPM b/README_BDIST_RPM new file mode 100644 index 0000000..186f1c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/README_BDIST_RPM @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +There is a bug in disttools for distributions who's rpmbuild compresses +the man pages. This causes an error building the final packages as it's +expecting bzr.1 and not finding it, but finding bzr.1.gz that's unpackaged. + +This bug is known to affect Fedora, RHEL, and Centos distributions. + +There is a preliminary patch at http://bugs.python.org/issue644744 that +fixes this issue with disttools. |