Bug 1006881

(In reply to Christopher Meng from comment #0)
> but I want you to add a virtual provides of libgme,

not a problem

> as Debian started using this name since 2009. We shouldn't make our users more
> confused.

well, isn't that Debian who confuses users if the upstream project and tarball name[1] is "game-music-emu"? :-)

[1] see also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#General_Naming

game-music-emu-0.6.0-2.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/game-music-emu-0.6.0-2.fc20

Please reconsider.

The request in this ticket makes no sense.

If at all, there ought to be "Provides: libgme-devel = %{version}-%{release}" in the -devel package. Possibly an additional one using %_isa.

Adding a non-versioned (!) "Provides: libgme" to a base library package doesn't add any benefit. Who will use it? We rely on automatic SONAME dependencies, and only under special circumstances we add explicit Requires on a package name and a specific version.

Package game-music-emu-0.6.0-2.fc20:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing game-music-emu-0.6.0-2.fc20'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-16674/game-music-emu-0.6.0-2.fc20
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

game-music-emu-0.6.0-3.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/game-music-emu-0.6.0-3.fc20

(In reply to Michael Schwendt from comment #3)
> If at all, there ought to be "Provides: libgme-devel =
> %{version}-%{release}" in the -devel package. Possibly an additional one
> using %_isa.

I've added this

> Adding a non-versioned (!)

oops, sorry, somehow I haven't realised the version is not added automatically (not that it would be important for the purpose mentioned below, but let's have this correct)

> "Provides: libgme" to a base library package
> doesn't add any benefit. Who will use it?

people coming from Debian (Ubuntu) searching what provides libgme?

it is just a piece of information added, to me, it is rather "why not" than "why" - this report is a proof that someone had a problem without that information, so let's fix it, I can live with two additional lines within the spec ...

> We rely on automatic SONAME dependencies, and only under special circumstances
> we add explicit Requires on a package name and a specific version.

see above, the point is not automatic dependency solving

Ah, okay. You only want to make it easier to find the package. One could not "BuildRequires: libgme-devel" currently, if the %_isa Provides is the only one.

"yum search libgme" would find the package, if the %summary or %description contained "libgme".

game-music-emu-0.6.0-2.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

game-music-emu-0.6.0-3.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.