On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
Panu Matilainen wrote, at 12/04/2008 12:43 AM +9:00:
Well the question is, should rpm-build require everything it can extract
dependencies from? That would drag in mono and whatnot... and rpm-build
itself certainly does not require pkg-config to function.
Adding dependency on pkgconfig is no big deal, but the line between what
should go to rpm-build dependencies and what to buildsys groups is rather
fuzzy.
- Panu -
So this contains packaging guidelines issue
- If FPC says "all packages which creates pkgconfig .pc file must
have _Build_Requires: pkgconfig", then rpm-build (or buildsys) does not
have to add pkgconfig dependency
- If FPC says no, then rpm-build or buildsys must have pkgconfig dependency
My current opinition is that rpm-build should have "Requires: pkgconfig"
because this affects even a small package and guideline changes due to this
issue will affect many packages.
Yup, pkg-config is a bit special in that many packages which provide a
pkg-config file don't actually require it themselves (for build), causing
unresolvable dependencies all too easily. Already done and building, will
be in rawhide in a few minutes.
- Panu -
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