Re: [Fedora-packaging] -devel arch dependencies

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 12 avril 2007 09:06, seth vidal a écrit :
>  On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 09:55 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >
> > > Orion Poplawski (orion(a)cora.nwra.com) said:
> > >> Here's a question.  Should -devel package requirements be of the
> > form:
> > >>
> > >> Requires: package-devel.%{arch}
> > >
> > > Doesn't work, so... no.
> >
> > Doesn't work, but interesting timing :)
> > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2007-April/002260.html
> >
>
>  I'd like to offer a HELL NO in reference to that syntax. 
Please someone explain JBJ that spec syntax must be parseable by humans,
and Arch(foo) will only make packagers try Version(foo).

Sanity demands foo(arch=x and version >y) if he wants packagers to
tokenize EVR for him

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Nicolas Mailhot