On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 05:03:23PM +0100, Georg Sauthoff wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 03:04:53PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 06:07:05PM +0100, Georg Sauthoff wrote:
> > > because rpm automatically adds something like:
> > >
> > > libfoo.so.1()(64bit)
> > >
> > > Of course, I could still add a superfluous
> > >
> > > Requires: libfoo
>
> > This could pull in the 32 bit version of the package so it's wrong as
> > well as redundant. (You'd want to use %{_isa} I think)
>
> > Is there a reason why you want to add extra Requires lines?
>
> I don't want to add extra Requires lines.
>
> On the contrary, I want to remove an extra Requires line but was
> challenged by the maintainer to keep it (without providing a convincing
> reason, I would say):
>
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/maildrop/pull-request/1
>
> Thus, to finally resolve this issue I googled for the Fedora policy,
> without finding the relevant section - thus I asked on this list.
Oh I see, in that case you are right and the maintainer is wrong
(doubly wrong in fact because the Requires line is satisfied by any
architecture).
Rich.
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