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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 18 July 2011 22:37, Luc Menut <lmenut at free.fr> wrote:
> 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
>

Good point. There'll be corner cases, but it should work for the
majority of packages.

-- 
Ahmad Samir