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

[Michael Scherer]

Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 à 14:15 +0200, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit :
> 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.

We have some choice :
- declare that this is wrong 
- add a exception for *-devel on that error
- add %ifarch in spec.

If we follow the policy that amhad proposed, the option 2 is the way to
go.
-- 
Michael Scherer