Rex Dieter wrote :
Jesse Keating wrote:
> Forwarding this here too.
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com>
> Reply-To: List for Fedora Package Maintainers
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> To: List for Fedora Package Maintainers <fedora-maintainers(a)redhat.com>
> Subject: devel packages with only one .pc file
> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:11:26 +0200
>
> I've recently got several bugs against package involving basically
> splitting out only one pkg-config file into a -devel package, because
> the packaging guidelines says so. I've done this for a couple of
> packages, but its starting to get very ridicolous.
>
> The one-file -devel package is totally useless
I would tend to agree, a single .pc file -devel pkg is a bit silly.
Perhaps the existing rule:
- MUST: Files used by pkgconfig (.pc files) must be in a -devel package.
probably ought to be amended.
Well, if the .pc file has its cflags or libs show that the package
requires other libraries (some X libs, or gtk stuff, or...), then it
does make sense to split the -devel package out, since it will not just
contain one file, but also other -devel package requirements that we
definitely don't want to be forcing on all simple users of the runtime
bits.
Matthias
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