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

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sat Sep 15 22:03:20 UTC 2012


Michael Schwendt wrote:

> 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 ...
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh thanks!

-- rex



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