To Require or not to Require?

[David Howells]

Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> > rpmlint does not complain, but, for RHEL, rpmdiff does.
> 
> What is the rpmdiff "complaint"?

Report from TEST_REQUIRES:
[VERIFY] [keyutils] Subpackage keyutils on i686 ppc s390 consumes libraries libkeyutils.so.1 libkeyutils.so.1(KEYUTILS_0.3) libkeyutils.so.1(KEYUTILS_1.0) libkeyutils.so.1(KEYUTILS_1.3) from subpackage keyutils-libs but does not have explicit package version requirement.
Please add Requires: keyutils-libs = %{version}-%{release} to keyutils in the specfile to avoid the need to test interoperability between the various combinations of old and new subpackages.

I guess this is more of a RHEL policy thing.

David