Bug 1117912

Summary:	rpm: Add support for recommends generation
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	21	CC:	jzeleny, novyjindrich, packaging-team-maint, pknirsch, pmatilai
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Description Mikolaj Izdebski 2014-07-09 15:40:01 UTC

Please implement automatic generation of recommends in rpmbuild. I can provide a patch if needed.

RPM 4.12 alpha supports manual recommends specification it spec files, but doesn't support recommends generation via file classifiers (rpmfc). I believe that this feature is necessary in order to fully utilise the power of soft dependencies.

In Java and dynamic languages automatic dependency generation plays an important role. Java SIG would like [1] to use this feature to for generating optional pagckage dependencies.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.11.90-0.git12844.5.fc21

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/java-devel/2014-April/005183.html

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2014-07-10 06:45:14 UTC

This has been implemented upstream already but its unclear at this point whether/when that work will be pulled into 4.12.x.

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2014-08-18 11:41:35 UTC

Fixed in rpm >= 4.12.0-0.beta1.1.fc21.1