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

Mon Jul 18 22:37:13 CEST 2011

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
+