[Fedora-packaging] glibc-devel (or libstdc++-devel) not BuildRequires exceptions?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:20:54 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Was about to comment on a review that
> BuildRequires: glibc-devel
> isn't needed and was in the list of exceptions, and was to link the list
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Exceptions_2
> only to discover it indeed is not there.  
> 
> Shouldn't it be?  
> 
> A Similar argument could probably be made for libstdc++-devel

It hasn't come up often enough over the past years. The guidelines say:

| There is no need to include the following packages
| or their dependencies ...
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    (!)

* gcc and gcc-c++ are on the list
* gcc requires glibc-devel
* gcc-c++ requires libstdc++-devel

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