Bug 1319216

Summary: incorrect use of Requires(pre)?
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Honza Silhan <jsilhan>
Component: cephAssignee: Boris Ranto <branto>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 25CC: bhubbard, branto, david, fedora, loic, steve
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Description Honza Silhan 2016-03-18 16:01:23 UTC 
We've identified your package for having `Requires(pre)` RPM flag without `Requires` [1]. `Requires(pre)` rpm tag could be interpreted wrongly, so to prevent any harm to Fedora users I am notifying you about this fact.

Any package that is specified in `Requires(pre)` could be freely removed. Citing from RPM pages:
```
If there are no other dependencies on the package providing /usr/sbin/useradd, that package is permitted to be removed from the system after installation(!)
``` [2]

If you really rely on dependency just during the installation process and your package don't necessary require the dependency for the proper run of your application then ignore this bug report and close it as NOTABUG. Otherwise add to your spec file additional `Requires` for the dependency, please.


[1] paste.fedoraproject.org/341611/82208431
[2] http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/MoreOnDependencies
Comment 1 Jan Kurik 2016-07-26 04:07:30 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.
Comment 2 Brad Hubbard 2016-10-08 05:18:53 UTC 
Requires(pre) only becomes relevant if we are installing on Suse.

%if 0%{?suse_version}
Requires(pre):»·pwdutils
%endif

If no one objects I'm going to close this NOTABUG.