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

[Ahmad Samir]

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).

-- 
Ahmad Samir