[Fedora-packaging] Policy question: how tight should cross-subpackage Requires be?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Lun 5 mai 2008 21:35, Hans de Goede a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Le Lun 5 mai 2008 18:40, Tom Lane a écrit :
>>
>>> Given a single SRPM generating multiple sub-RPMs, some of which
>>> depend
>>> on each other, how hard should the maintainer try to ensure that
>>> matching versions of the sub-RPMs are installed?
>>
>> If you fear that mismatched subpackages may not work well together,
>> I'd have them all conflict with versions < exact same build. What
>> you're trying to describe is a conflict. Any sane repository will
>> always have subpackages at the same build level, and not
>> self-conflict
>> (that's the main reason we ask people to avoid conflicts today; it
>> wouldn't apply in your case).
>>
>
> Ugh, no no no, thats just ugly for no good reason, just add a Requires
> to the
> full version of the base package, or the sub-package that the
> sub-package needs.

That only works if you have a nice subpackage hierarchy. Not all
packages are like that

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot