review request for libpst
Tom Lane
tgl at redhat.com
Thu Apr 9 17:18:30 UTC 2009
Carl Byington <carl at five-ten-sg.com> writes:
> Thanks to everyone for their comments. Thinking about this dependency
> from the main libpst package to the -libs subpackage, it seems that we
> should have
> Requires: %{name}-libs >= %{version}-%{release}
> in the main package.
I think the standard recommendation is to use a requires like this with
"=", not ">=", to bind together different subpackages. It's almost
never a good idea to let non-matching subpackages be installed together
... unless you would like to take on the burden of testing all such
combinations to see if they work.
There is a packaging guideline about this IIRC. Have you read
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines
regards, tom lane
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