On Monday, 27 November 2006 at 18:18, Michał Bentkowski wrote: > 2006/11/27, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >If you really want to name the package "<name>" only, then I'd recommend > >to at least add "Provides: %{name}-devel = %{version}-%{release}" to > >cater users expecting development files in "*-devel" packages. > > In my opinion it's not a good solution. ReviewGuidelines says that: > "The placement of pkgconfig(.pc) files depends on their usecase, and > this is usually for development purposes, so should be placed in a > -devel pkg. A reasonable exception is that the main pkg itself is a > devel tool not installed in a user runtime, e.g. gcc or gdb." - it > concerns .pc files but I think that solution should be applied in all > packages which are only development packages. > > Thus Gérard is right, -devel subpackage is not needed. Why not call the main package -devel and forget the whole issue? Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski MPlayer developer http://rpm.greysector.net/mplayer/ "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list