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

[Dexter Morgan]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> 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).
>
> --
> Ahmad Samir
>

for me this is a +1 w/o hesitation