[Bug 662258] Review Request: ghc-pcre-light - A regex library for Perl 5 compatible regular expressions

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662258

--- Comment #6 from Andrew McNabb <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org> 2011-01-27 13:05:25 EST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #2)
> > > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > > 1) These errors from rpmlint should be fixed if possible:
> > > > 
> > > > ghc-pcre-light-prof.x86_64: E: devel-dependency ghc-pcre-light-devel
> > > > ghc-pcre-light-prof.x86_64: W: devel-file-in-non-devel-package
> > > > /usr/lib64/ghc-6.12.3/pcre-light-0.4/libHSpcre-light-0.4_p.a
> > > 
> > > Standard Haskell packaging things. These files are used when profiling the code
> > > which implies that the -devel package exist.
> > 
> > Shouldn't the libHSpcre-light-0.4_p.a appear in the devel package rather than
> > in the main package?
> 
> The _p is the profiling library. The -devel library does not have it.

So it looks like RPM is complaining because the ghc-pcre-light-prof package
contains a .a file, but ghc-pcre-light-prof isn't a devel package.  This seems
like a legitimate error.

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