[Bug 833573] Review Request: nettle - Low level crytopgraphic library

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833573

--- Comment #10 from David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> ---
I don't think I'd get too worked up about package naming. When the library is
pulled in as a runtime dependency, it's referenced by the library name(s):
libhogweed.so.2()(64bit)
libnettle.so.4()(64bit)  

And when it's seen in BuildRequires:, it should be referred to as
pkgconfig(hogweed)
pkgconfig(nettle)

In neither case should anyone really care about the *name* of the package. We
could call it anything we like, and it wouldn't matter. And likewise in this
context it shouldn't matter whether we split it into separate nettle/hogweed
packages. If a dependent package has correct BuildRequires on the pkgconfig()
objects it needs, it'll be fine.

On the topic of splitting nettle/hogweed.... we also need to ship GnuTLS v3,
since we're currently shipping a hopelessly out of date GnuTLS v2.12 (bug
#726886). And GnuTLS uses hogweed, so I'm not sure how often you'd manage to
*avoid* having hogweed installed; it might not be worth splitting them at. But
if you feel strongly that it's useful, feel free to make changes to the package
(I'll grant you permissions if you aren't a provenpackager).

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