Re: Dropping elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils-devel-static subpackages

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On 7/21/20 2:24 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Nothing seems to require these packages, but that might be simply be
> because they are static libraries, so there aren't any runtime
> requirements. Is there some way to determine if anything would start
> failing to build if I simply remove them? Apart from simply waiting for
> the bug reports to pop up :)

I found one:

$ dnf repoquery --quiet --repo rawhide-source --arch src \
    --whatrequires 'elfutils-*-static'
kexec-tools-0:2.0.20-14.fc33.src

> Is there a procedure to follow for dropping these sub-packages, or can
> I simply remove them from the spec file?

Maybe add Obsoletes to the devel subpackages, but not Provides.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#renaming-or-replacing-existing-packages
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