Weak dependencies come to Fedora

[Kamil Paral]

Not sure if you noticed, but this can possibly affect some of our tools or workflows, so I wanted to highlight it - it seems that weak dependencies are now approved in Fedora:
http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2015-07-09/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:WeakDependencies

We now have 4 more RPM dependency types to look out for :-) The first thing that comes to mind is depcheck, so I created a task for it here:
https://phab.qadevel.cloud.fedoraproject.org/T524

Hopefully this will not affect our other tools too much. If you know about something else that is likely to break, shout.

Thanks,
Kamil

[John Dulaney]

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> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:20:19 -0400
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> Subject: Weak dependencies come to Fedora
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> Not sure if you noticed, but this can possibly affect some of our tools or workflows, so I wanted to highlight it - it seems that weak dependencies are now approved in Fedora:
> http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2015-07-09/
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:WeakDependencies
>
> We now have 4 more RPM dependency types to look out for :-) The first thing that comes to mind is depcheck, so I created a task for it here:
> https://phab.qadevel.cloud.fedoraproject.org/T524
>
> Hopefully this will not affect our other tools too much. If you know about something else that is likely to break, shout.
>
> Thanks,
> Kamil
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Depcheck /should/ already handle weak dependencies, actually.  I talked this over
with the RPM folks at Flock last year (I won't be going this year, btw).  I will, however,
check to be sure that it does.

John.