Re: [Fwd: devel packages with only one .pc file]

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Jesse Keating wrote:
> Forwarding this here too.
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: List for Fedora Package Maintainers
> <fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: List for Fedora Package Maintainers <fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: devel packages with only one .pc file
> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:11:26 +0200
> 
> I've recently got several bugs against package involving basically
> splitting out only one pkg-config file into a -devel package, because
> the packaging guidelines says so. I've done this for a couple of
> packages, but its starting to get very ridicolous.
> 
> The one-file -devel package is totally useless

I would tend to agree, a single .pc file -devel pkg is a bit silly.
Perhaps the existing rule:

- MUST: Files used by pkgconfig (.pc files) must be in a -devel package.

probably ought to be amended.

-- Rex

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