Re: Policy question: how tight should cross-subpackage Requires be?

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2008/5/5 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx>:
> Tom Lane wrote:
[snip]
> > 3. Put in cross-package requires of the form
> >        Requires: %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release}
> > ie, constrain to "exact same build"
> >
> >
>
>  3. definitely is the way to go, we currently already mandate this for
> -devel
>    subpackages, which we need to generalize I think, we should mandate that:
>
>  a. -devel subpackages require the main or a -libs subpackage
>  b. that any inter srpm deps (including those from -devel on main / -libs)
>    should be fully versioned

Assuming that 3. is indeed the way to go (and that seems right to me),
shouldn't rpmbuild actually be fixed to enforce this?

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