Does -devel package name only indicate "C" development packages?

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Sat May 18 10:18:41 UTC 2013


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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962081

I have a request to change the name of selinux-policy-devel to
selinux-policy-devel-support, since

"everywhere else in the distro -devel means just header files in c and not any
other development tools and we have several scripts that assume that's the case."

selinux-policy-devel contains interface files and tools required to build
selinux-policy.  It also currently contains the man pages, which I can move to
the base package.

selinux-policy-devel has existed I believe since at least Fedora 5, and is
fairly well known as a package (Google Knowledge) I hesitate to change the
name of this package, but if Fedora Packaging guidelines or consensus requires
it, I will.

* Tue Jun 20 2006 Dan Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> 2.2.47-5
- - Break out selinux-devel package
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