On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 09:50 +0100, Dan Horák wrote: > Hello, > > I am doing a review for lcov, which is an extension of gcov > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181444). In the > spec file there is "Requires: /usr/bin/gcov", gcov is a part of gcc > package. I would like to know whether is this correct If lcov calls /usr/bin/gcov, esp. if it contains a hard-coded reference to this file, is absolutely perfect. If lconv calls "gcov" on $PATH, then there'd be some room for argumentation. > or there should be > a dependency on the whole gcc package. "R: gcc" would break if gcov once should be moved out of the gcc package. A "R: /usr/bin/gcov" would remain valid. > I do not see any relevant > information in the Packaging Guidelines. As usual in such cases, there is no "black or white". It depends on a package's details. Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
