[Fedora-packaging] Documentation packages and explicit Requires

Richard Fearn richardfearn at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 10:48:24 UTC 2015


> After many years, there still is the occasional packager, who adds
> an explicit "Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}" to a noarch -doc
> subpackage which contains files one can display with any suitable program
> (such as PDF, HTML or TXT files).

Thanks for your email Michael - I just checked my packages and found a
few -javadoc packages that unnecessarily depend on the base package.

Regards,

Richard

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Richard Fearn
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