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

Fri Jul 8 16:27:40 CEST 2011

On 08.07.2011 07:37, 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.
+> 
+> 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).
+
+I remember having this discussion in Mandriva when we dropped %major
+from devel name. As a result the library policy (which we have on Mageia
+as well) was altered so that all packages should have
+- name-devel
+- tarballname-devel
+as provides, i.e. without lib%name-devel (except for existing pkgs).
+This is what I've been using for any new packages I've packaged.
+
+However, as usual, I'm fine with any consistent scheme (one or the other
+or both).
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+