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

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu May 8 01:28:09 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:30 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Assuming that 3. is indeed the way to go (and that seems right to me),
> shouldn't rpmbuild actually be fixed to enforce this?

No, because 3 isn't always true, and rpm has no way of knowing what a
-libs package means. 

~spot




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