[Fedora-packaging] Is this allowed? Files and libs duplicated in subpackages

[Susi Lehtola]

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:38:42 -0400
Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/01/2013 03:09 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1003196
> > So far, it has always been a packaging mistake to duplicate files
> > (and their Provides as a consequence) in multiple subpackages.
> 
> Well, there are a few places where I can see duplicating files making
> sense (but certainly not to the degree demonstrated in the mate
> packages).
> 
> For example, in the SSSD package, we duplicate the 'sssd_pac' libexec
> binary in both the 'sssd-provider-ad' and 'sssd-provider-ipa' plugin
> subpackages, rather than add useless metadata for an extra common
> subpackage for both to depend on. It seems wasteful to have a whole
> subpackage for one 150k binary.

You may need to duplicate license files, but I really can't see why you
would duplicate binaries. It just makes no sense. That's what packages
are for: eliminating redundancies and tracking dependency info.
-- 
Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org