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

Fri Jul 8 14:27:12 CEST 2011

On 8 July 2011 13:44, EatDirt <dirteat at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 08/07/11 06:37, Ahmad Samir 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.
+>
+>> WDYT?
+>
+> Hi! YES!!!!!!!
+>
+> As a Padawan, this was one of my first troubles, to find the correct -devel
+> package name. Some packages have even different --provides according to the
+> arch :-/
+>
+
+[..]
+
+> Both "Provides" are certainly the best, but we may recommend the usage of
+> only one of type in Requires: lib%{name}-devel?
+>
+> Cheers,
+> Chris.
+>
+>
+
+For new specs maybe, but for old ones, that would break compatibility
+with other specs that already have BR: %{name}-devel. So since we
+can't easily get rid of one or the other, better have both...
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+