$ du -h /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/*.patch 76K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.10-v5-update.patch 76K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.11-v5-update.patch 76K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.12-v5-update.patch 76K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.13-v5-update.patch 76K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.14-v5-update.patch 76K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.15-v5-update.patch 76K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.16-v5-update.patch 28K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.17-v5-update.patch 28K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.18-v5-update.patch 20K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.19-v5-update.patch 16K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.20-v5-update.patch 8.0K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.21-v5-update.patch 8.0K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.22-v5-update.patch 4.0K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.23-v5-update.patch 76K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/autofs4-2.6.9-v5-update.patch 4.0K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/util-linux-2.12a-flock.patch 4.0K /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.3/util-linux-2.12q-flock.patch
[$ du -h autofs-5.0.4/patches 2.0M autofs-5.0.4/patches ]
So, we've got ~48K of %changelog details in the autofs.spec, but the question why the %doc line explicitly includes patches/* is not answered. That clutters up the docdir unnecessarily.
Who can tell why this is done?