On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 02:26:03PM -0600, Ken Gaillot wrote: > gettext-devel seems the more logical dependency, since it has the > autoconf macros. And of course the guidelines for "Devel Packages" > state "-devel packages must be used to contain files which are > intended solely for development or needed only at build-time." > > Both gettext and gettext-devel depend on gettext-libs, which might > make the issue unnoticeable for packages don't use autotools. > > Would "gettext" or "gettext-devel" be more correct for BuildRequires? A straw poll of the 121 packages I have checked out here: gettext only: 3 gettext-devel: 8 ocaml-gettext[-devel]: 4 none of the above: 106 contains %find_lang: 28 I'm not surprised that gettext-devel is more common, for the reason you gave -- that you can run autoconf/autoreconf. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
