On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 19:09 -0400, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > I'm currently reviewing a request for Telepathy-Qt4, which currently > only provides a static library: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520663 > > It seems to me there are two different options: > - rename package to telepathy-qt4-static -- might cause administrative > hassle if and when upstream enables dynamically-linked libraries This is not really an option. (You, too, can patch the software to build dynamically instead; it often is the least path of resistance.) > - keep it as before, and just leave the main package empty. Make > -devel virtually Provides: -static. AFAIK this is what is usually done in case there are no shared libraries. Of course the static library can be put in a separate -static package, but then one would have to make the -devel package require it in any case if there is no shared library available..? > Should the -doc subpackage depend on -devel? Should it be called > -devel-doc or -static-doc, or just -doc? In 99.9% of the cases, plain -doc will do. I would break it in parts only if the documentation is ridiculously big, say, like kdelibs-apidocs (281MB compressed, 628MB uncompressed, and still it's in one package!!). That is: if a user bothers to install -doc separately, then it's assumed that s/he wants to get all the documentation, and is not bothered if there's a bit of something extra on the side. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
