On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:22 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Some Perl packages install header files deep into the internal Perl > directory hierarchy. I guess these are used for something internal to > Perl. Some packages which do this are perl-PDL, Gtk-Perl, perl-DBI > (and now perl-cairo, > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187799). > > The packaging guidelines state: > > - MUST: Header files or static libraries must be in a -devel package. > > but it seems pointless to put two header files in a separate -devel > package when they aren't intended to be included from user-written > code. I suppose it's possible that Perl needs to have them present to > run. > > Is this situation a valid exception to the above MUST? Ehhh... let me look at the situation here. I'm inclined to say no, but they might mean something different to perl. ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
