[Bug 542765] Review Request: libghemical - Libraries for the Ghemical chemistry package

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--- Comment #5 from Christian Krause <chkr at plauener.de> 2010-03-30 03:49:19 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Sorry about the delay - I now have some time to work on these packages.
> 
> naming - I thought there was some fedora requirement that .so objects be in
> -lib subpackages.
> 
> data - as a separate package, that is arch-independent, which we lose if placed
> in the main package.    

No, this is not necessary and not intended:

- if the package contains only a library, then the *.so.* files go into the
base package which name matches the upstream tarball

- exception: if the package contains a library and e.g. a binary which uses the
library and if this library may be also used by other packages then it is
justified to create a -libs package (see e.g. tcp_wrappers, tcp_wrappers-libs)

- if the arch-independent data is needed for the base package, then it should
not be separated (and for sure the COPYING file should never be separated from
the binaries)

- in general: separate files into sub-packages only in case it is necessary,
reasons could be:
* the situation with the libraries as described above
* very large documentation
* additional data which is not really needed for the base package (e.g.
additional levels for a game)
* -devel

The main reasons is to save same disk space for people who don't need the
additional files.

So in case of this package, all files should go into the base package (no
-libs, no -data) besides the devel files which are already correct in the
-devel package.

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