[Fedora-packaging] Re: [Fwd: devel packages with only one .pc file]

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:53:46AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>  Jesse Keating wrote:
>  > Forwarding this here too.
>  > 
>  > -------- Forwarded Message --------
>  > From: Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  > Reply-To: List for Fedora Package Maintainers
>  > <fedora-maintainers(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  > To: List for Fedora Package Maintainers <fedora-maintainers(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  > 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. 
What good is a pc file w/o any other development bits? Maybe the
package is question has a bogus pc file that ought to be rm'd instead
of split off into a subpackage?
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net