To Require or not to Require?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:30:46 +0200, Andreas Schwab <schwab at redhat.com> wrote:

> > The separate "bar" package still is entirely irrelevant
> 
> It kills your entire argument.
> 
> Andreas.

It still doesn't.
libfoo update would need to come first. First come, first served. And
what packaging techniques to apply in the libfoo update has been the topic
of this thread:

| I have a package (keyutils) that produces three RPMs: keyutils
| (programs), keyutils-libs and keyutils-devel.
|
| ...
|
| So does the keyutils rpm need an explicit Requires on the keyutils-libs
| rpm in the specfile or is the implicit library dependency sufficient?

Whether any other update built against libfoo would also benefit from
an explicit dep is covered by the guidelines:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/152426