File-5.14 in rawhide - removing file-static subpackage

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Fri Mar 22 13:54:56 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 09:45 -0400, Bill Peck wrote:
> On 03/22/2013 03:55 AM, Jan Kaluza wrote:
> > upstream does not build libmagic.a anymore since File-5.14. I don't know what
> > was the original reason to even package this static library, but according to
> > repoquery, nobody is using it. I'm removing file-static subpackage in
> Being a static library, how could repoquery tell you if anyone was using it?

If a specfile BuildRequires something, the corresponding srpm Requires
that thing.

- ajax




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