Bug 1871098

Summary:	vhd2vl (probably incorrectly) build-depends on flex-devel
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Arjun Shankar <ashankar>
Component:	vhd2vl	Assignee:	Filipe Rosset <rosset.filipe>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	34	CC:	i, rosset.filipe
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Description Arjun Shankar 2020-08-21 10:24:56 UTC

I'm filing this report because when I run the following command:
dnf repoquery --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="*-source" --arch=src --whatdepends flex-devel

I see vhd2vl listed among the results.

flex-devel used to provide only libfl.a, a static library.

As per Fedora packaging guidelines, a build dependency on a static library should be represented by depending on the -static subpackage, not the -devel one that might actually contain the static library:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_statically_linking_executables

I just changed the subpackage split of flex, and have obsoleted flex-devel.

Although build-dependent packages will continue to build, a build-dependency requiring libfl.a should now ideally build-depend on libfl-static. flex now also provides shared libraries, and a build-dependency on libfl.so, should now depend on libfl2 (shared library) and libfl2-devel (headers).

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2021-02-09 15:16:16 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 34 development cycle.
Changing version to 34.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2022-05-12 16:29:03 UTC

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Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2022-06-08 00:47:09 UTC

Fedora Linux 34 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2022-06-07.

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