Good question - the subpackaging is just a hack (and yes it is confusing sorry) to workaround packaging manpower basically.

Package reviews for such subpackages are very welcome and will replace the subpackages in the long term, assuming the current detailed Package Review workflow continues.

I didn't understand from your mail what led you to post this question?

Hope that helps,

Jens

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@gmail.com> wrote:

The ghc-cryptohash packages builds both ghc-cryptonite and ghc-memory [1]. Why is this the case?

I spent a long time trying to figure out where I was getting ghc-memory from when it could not be found on packages [2], koji [3], bodhi [4], or release-monitoring [5]. It's only when I looked for the RPM on koji did I figure out it's a subpackage, because that's just totally unexpected, especially because there's an open review request for it [6].

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/ghc-cryptohash.git/tree/ghc-cryptohash.spec#n20
[2] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/s/ghc-memory
[3] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/search?match=glob&type=package&terms=ghc-memory
[4] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=ghc-memory
[5] https://release-monitoring.org/projects/search/?pattern=memory
[6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=ghc-memory