Heads Up: e2fsprogs library split-out
Ben Boeckel
MathStuf at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 19:40:53 UTC 2009
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> writes:
>> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>> Any chance that in the interim, e2fsprogs-devel could
Require: these
>>> new split out packages (if it doesn't already)?
>
>> For now it only requires libcom_err-devel, from inspection
it looks like
>> that's the only set of headers that the e2fsprogs-devel
headers include ...
>
>> I could do this though - but when would it get removed
again; would it
>> be better to go with the short sharp shock and just clean it
up in the
>> early phase of F12? :)
>
> +1 for just do it. There is not a whole lot of point to
refactoring the
> package if dependent packages don't pick up the refactoring.
>
> AFAIR, the only reason postgresql BR's this is because
libcom_err is
> depended on by krb5, which it uses. I wonder whether the
separate BR is
> still needed at all --- shouldn't a BR on krb5-devel be
sufficient?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
If not, it's a packaging error in krb5.
- --Ben
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