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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
