[Bug 491317] Review Request: mingw32-gstreamer - MinGW Windows gstreamer library

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--- Comment #19 from Erik van Pienbroek <erik-fedora at vanpienbroek.nl>  2009-06-19 12:18:18 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> the other reason for these much comment because as we discussed earlier and as
> i wrote in
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW/Packaging_issues#devel_package_split if we
> start to create static sub-packages then we've to rethink the packaging to
> create devel subpackages similar to the native case. mainly in this case as
> there're binaries in the main packages not just dlls.  

Yeah, this is an issue which should probably be brought up on the mailing list
so we can decide which direction we want to go with subpackages. The question
which type of executables are allowed also needs to be discussed there as win32
applications aren't really welcome in Fedora (only libraries).

I had one remaining question:
- Why are the binaries split across two packages?

To comply with the Fedora packaging guidelines, the %define's at the top of the
.spec file need to be changed to %global's as mentioned in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#.25global_preferred_over_.25define
It's okay to just replace all occurences of '%define' with '%global'

In the latest .spec (0.10.23-1) you've added %{_mingw32_libdir}/*.a to the
-static subpackage. The *.a also catches the .dll.a files while those should be
in the main package.
-> All the *.dll.a files need to be part of the main package
-> All the *.a (NOT *.dll.a) files need to be part of the -static subpackage

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