[Fedora-packaging] Review Guidelines on -devel packages

[Michael Schwendt]

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ReviewGuidelines

| MUST: If a package contains library files with a suffix
| (e.g. libfoo.so.1.1), then library files that end in .so (without suffix)
| must go in a -devel package. [19]

[19] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#DevelPackages

Based on just the ReviewGuidelines, some packagers and reviewers
still get this wrong and create -devel packages for plugin .so libraries.
In particular because it is a MUST. The linked Packaging Guidelines page
on "Devel Packages" makes it a SHOULD and also mentions a rule of thumb,
but apparently this is still not clear enough.

How about this?

MUST: If a package contains library files with a numeric suffix
(e.g. libfoo.so.1 or libfoo.so.1.1), extra care must be taken to
distinguish between libraries needed at run-time and libraries
needed only when compiling/building software. Library files needed 
only at build-time must be put into a -devel package. [19]

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