[Mageia-dev] Some more new rpmlint warning on upload

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula at iki.fi
Wed Jul 27 14:55:20 CEST 2011


On 27.07.2011 15:15, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
> 
>> * useless-provides
>>
>> that's when foo provide foo. There is no case where it would needed.
> 
> AFAIK there are many packages in the i586 repository that are called
> libfoo-devel and have a provides libfoo-devel. For x86-64 the packages
> are called lib64foo-devel so the rpmlint warning doesn't show up there.

Indeed.

Somewhat related:
http://rpm.org/ticket/80

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Anssi Hannula


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