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

[Luc Menut]

Le 13/07/2011 12:41, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
> On 13 July 2011 12:34, nicolas vigier<boklm at mars-attacks.org>  wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>>
...
>>>
>>> Using pkgconfig provides looks like an optimal option, we could start
>>> now, whenever we touch a spec we change to the pkgconfig provides, and
>>> gradually all the specs will be adapted.
>>>
>>> And for the packages that don't have .pc files we add:
>>> Provides: %{name}-devel = %{version}-release
>>> Provides: lib%{name}-devel = %{version}-release
>>>
>>> or we could add them to all packages whether they have .pc files or
>>> not, but still always use pkgconfig() provides as BR in our specs.
>>
>> I think it's better to use %{name}-devel for packages which don't have
>> pkgconfig files. And keep pkgconfig() provides for packages with .pc
>> files.
>>
>>
>
> As spturtle said, conformity/consistency is good, i.e. all our
> packages should have the same Provides, that's better in the long run,
> and less confusing for new (and old too) packagers.
>

Couldn't we have a macro for this? It would help in consistency, and 
will avoid typo.
We could use it like this:
%mkdevelprov %{name} %{version}

regards,
Luc