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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Standardising the virtual Provides in -devel packages</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Tue Jul 19 08:32:24 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 18 July 2011 22:37, Luc Menut <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">lmenut at free.fr</A>> wrote:
><i> Le 13/07/2011 12:41, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> On 13 July 2011 12:34, nicolas vigier<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>>  wrote:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote:
</I>>>><i>
</I>><i> ...
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> Using pkgconfig provides looks like an optimal option, we could start
</I>>>>><i> now, whenever we touch a spec we change to the pkgconfig provides, and
</I>>>>><i> gradually all the specs will be adapted.
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> And for the packages that don't have .pc files we add:
</I>>>>><i> Provides: %{name}-devel = %{version}-release
</I>>>>><i> Provides: lib%{name}-devel = %{version}-release
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> or we could add them to all packages whether they have .pc files or
</I>>>>><i> not, but still always use pkgconfig() provides as BR in our specs.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> I think it's better to use %{name}-devel for packages which don't have
</I>>>><i> pkgconfig files. And keep pkgconfig() provides for packages with .pc
</I>>>><i> files.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> As spturtle said, conformity/consistency is good, i.e. all our
</I>>><i> packages should have the same Provides, that's better in the long run,
</I>>><i> and less confusing for new (and old too) packagers.
</I>>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Couldn't we have a macro for this? It would help in consistency, and will
</I>><i> avoid typo.
</I>><i> We could use it like this:
</I>><i> %mkdevelprov %{name} %{version}
</I>><i>
</I>><i> regards,
</I>><i> Luc
</I>><i>
</I>
Good point. There'll be corner cases, but it should work for the
majority of packages.
--
Ahmad Samir
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