Thought I'd post this to -maintainers for potential discussion first
before going to -devel-announce...
As you might know, popt is one of the long-time offenders in that the main
package provides both runtime and development libraries + includes.
That's about to change now.
This involves quite a few changes:
1) Currently popt package is built from within rpm package, which is just
nuts because popt has it's own versioning and bundling within rpm causes
nasty complications because of that. Popt will be split off into a
separate package, review request is at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249352
2) As rpm depends on it, popt has been always installed everywhere and
because it has included the development environment too, few packages
explicitly buildrequire it.
3) A *lot* of packages actually on popt. See attached requires-popt.txt file,
generated with
'repoquery --repoid=development --whatrequires --alldeps popt --queryformat "%{sourcerpm}"|sort -u'
Quite a few of these will probably be covered by popt-devel in lower level
libraries (some gnome-devel package requiring popt-devel or such) but not
all.
To ease transition, starting from the next rawhide push, the popt package
that's still built from rpm.spec adds
Provides: popt-devel = %{version}-%{release}
so you can start adding the buildrequires for the packages needing it
already. Once the new popt package is reviewed and published to
repositories, rpm will be changed to build against that and drop the
internal popt entirely.
popt-1.12 (the new package in review) is supposed to be ABI and API
compatible to the current one (1.10.2.1) but a rebuild of depending
packages against the new version might not be a bad idea anyway...
Did I miss anything / other comments?
- Panu -
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