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

Wed Jul 13 12:31:57 CEST 2011

On 13 July 2011 12:15, Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org> wrote:
+> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote:
+>
+>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2065
+>>
+>> 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.
+>
+> Always adding the same provides regardless of what gets added automatically
+> is probably better and easier. I'd like to modify or clarify your proposal a
+> bit. When name starts with "lib", use %{oname}-devel and lib%{oname}-devel
+> as provides. oname must be defined in the specfile as the name without the
+> lib prefix. That is usually already the case and this macro is used as
+> argument for mklibname.
+>
+>
+>    Christiaan
+>
+
+Agreed, liblib* shouldn't exist.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+