[Mageia-dev] Standardising the virtual Provides in -devel packages

[Michael Scherer]

Le vendredi 08 juillet 2011 à 17:27 +0300, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
> On 08.07.2011 07:37, Ahmad Samir wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I've had a rather vague idea about standardising the virtual provides
> > in the distro, there should be:
> > Provides: %{name}-devel
> > Provides: lib%{name}-devel
> > 
> > either both of them in _all_ packages, or one of them in _all_
> > packages, so that we don't have to check urpmq --provides all the
> > time. Personally, I am more inclined on having them both, so as not to
> > break already working specs.
> > 
> > For example:
> > $ urpmq --provides lib64gudev1.0-devel-166-5.mga1.x86_64
> > libgudev-devel[== 166-5.mga1]
> > pkgconfig(gudev-1.0)[== 166]
> > devel(libgudev-1.0(64bit))
> > lib64gudev1.0-devel[== 166-5.mga1]
> > lib64gudev1.0-devel(x86-64)[== 166-5.mga1]
> > 
> > only libgudev-devel, so if I put BR gudev-devel in a spec it won't
> > work, whereas I'd expect it to work since some other packages have
> > such similar provides:
> > $ urpmq --provides lib64dbus-1-devel
> > libdbus-1-devel[== 1.4.1-3.mga1]
> > libdbus-devel[== 1.4.1-3.mga1]
> > dbus-devel[== 1.4.1-3.mga1]
> > [...]
> > 
> > 
> > WDYT?
> > 
> > (If we agree to go one way or the other, will just fix them gradually
> > over time).
> 
> I remember having this discussion in Mandriva when we dropped %major
> from devel name. As a result the library policy (which we have on Mageia
> as well) was altered so that all packages should have
> - name-devel
> - tarballname-devel
> as provides, i.e. without lib%name-devel (except for existing pkgs).
> This is what I've been using for any new packages I've packaged.
> 
> However, as usual, I'm fine with any consistent scheme (one or the other
> or both).

I would be in favor of keeping the compatibility with existing
practice. 


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Michael Scherer