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

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Hi,

On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 15:21 -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> On 7/21/20 3:12 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > > > 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
> > 
> > You mean add an Obsoletes: elfutils-devel-static to the elfutils-devel
> > subpackage? Does that really work with packages that are normally build
> > requires of other packages?
> 
> Yes, that's what I mean, and make sure to version that like the link
> describes. AFAIK the Obsoletes alone will just solve the upgrade path,
> but you would need Provides to satisfy the build requires. That doesn't
> make sense to do in this case, since you're not going to provide static
> functionality in the "replacement".

OK. Thanks. I had a chat with the kexec-tools maintainers and it turns
out that they already link dynamically (since a couple of years) but
the elfutils-devel-static BuildRequires was left in (and since it
Requires elfutils-devel, it all build fine anyway). They agreed to
remove the BuildRequires. So nothing should block the removal anymore.

I committed the removal of the two static subpackages and added an
Obsoletes: elfutils-devel-static%{depsuffix} < 0.180-5 to elfutils-
devel and an Obsoletes: elfutils-libelf-devel-static%{depsuffix} <
0.180-5 to elfutils-devel.

But I haven't done a build yet to give people a chance to yell and
scream this is the wrong way to do it. If nobody complains I'll do a
build of elfutils-0.180-5 for rawhide on Friday.

Thanks,

Mark
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