I've updated wiki page with what Neal said.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 8:11 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 19. 02. 19 2:26, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 6:31 PM Tom Stellard <tstellar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Would there be some way to opt out of this? In some cases, %{name}-devel
>> Requires only %{name}-libs and not %{name}.
>>
>
> Perhaps it's not obvious, but the idea here is that RPM will "sense"
> what the name of the subpackage it depends on is, and generate the
> correct strict dependency automatically.
>
> For example, foo, foo-libs, libfoobaz, and foo-devel exist, built from foo.spec.
>
> foo-devel requires libfoobaz.so.1 (provided by libfoobaz) and
> libfoo.so.0 (provided by foo-libs).
>
> Currently, rpm generates the "libfoobaz.so.1()(64bit)" and
> "libfoo.so.0()(64bit)" dependencies and leaves the rest to you. This
> will change the behavior so that when it identifies that a subpackage
> produced from the spec contains that dependency, it'll be replaced
> with a strictly versioned dep on the subpackage. So instead of
> "libfoo.so.0()(64bit)", it'll be "foo-libs%{?_isa} =
> %{version}-%{release}". And the "libfoobaz.so.1()(64bit)" dependency
> would be replaced with "libfoobaz%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}".
>
> If there's no requires that matches with a provides in another
> subpackage that's built from the spec, rpm would not do anything, and
> it'll be exactly as it is now.
>
> This is merely about optimizing requires across subpackages from the
> same source package.
Thank You, now it makes sense!
This needs to be said in the change proposal.
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