Whoops ... race condition. Apparently fixed in upstream. All's well that ends well. Lessons learned and all that. On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 10:53 -0600, Richi Plana wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 16:44 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin <at> redhat.com> writes: > > > Forgive me for wading in here, but upstream *has* to be where .pc files > > > show up, and if they don't show up there, we absolutely shouldn't be > > > adding them to binary packages. I believe this very strongly. > > > > But there are actually cases where .pc files are being added in Fedora > > packages, for reasons such as the upstream foo-config script not being > > multilib-safe (so it gets replaced with multilibbed .pc files and a wrapper > > foo-config script which just calls pkgconfig). There are also other reasons for > > adding .pc files in the distribution. > > > > That said, I do think this point needs to be taken upstream. > > That's the point that Nalin is trying to make, :). > > Two things unanimously agreed on: > > 1) *.pc files are important because these contain the options that the > providing package would know and the dependent package developer > shouldn't guess. > 2) A mechanism for providing this (whether it's a *.pc file or something > else) should be provided by the package developer and that means > upstream. They should answer the question "How do I develop against your > packages?" > > Now, there are more immediate concerns like "What to do in the meantime > because certain packages are waiting?" That's where Ralf and Chris > should cooperate and Ralf begrudgingly (and quite sarcastically, I might > add ... It's a good thing I can see the humor in it sometimes ;) ) has > declared he will provide .. ahm ... OpenThreads-devel-dontuse and > OpenSceneGraph-devel-dontuse for people to, err, use. That might sound > silly, but that's the package maintainers last word, ;). Just be glad > it's not worse, :-p. > > Don't forget the BuildRequires in your spec file. > -- > > Richi Plana > > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
