Bug 2217262

Summary:	RPM packaging of gsl-devel has "Requires:" automake - brings in huge unnecessary stuff
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	mark <mark>
Component:	gsl	Assignee:	Pavel Cahyna <pcahyna>
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Description mark@galassi.org 2023-06-25 16:55:05 UTC

Description of problem:

RPM packaging of gsl-devel has "Requires:" automake, which is unneeded and causes problems.  It is clearly incorrect to have Requires: on automake -- at most it should be "BuildRequires:".  This brings in a large amount of Perl packages.  Note that gsl is a tight math library that typically should only require the standard math library.

Recommendation: please change, in gsl.spec, the line:

Requires: pkgconfig, automake

to read instead:

Requires: pkgconfig
BuildRequires: automake



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gsl-devel-2.5-1

How reproducible:

Type:

$ dnf repoquery --installed --whatrequires automake

The answer will include something like:

gsl-devel-0:2.5-1.el8.x86_64

(or just look at the gsl.spec file for el8)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install gsl-devel gsl
2. dnf repoquery --installed --whatrequires automake | grep -i gsl
3. observe that it says: "gsl-devel-0:2.5-1.el8.x86_64"

Actual results:

gsl-devel-0:2.5-1.el8.x86_64

Expected results:

(blank output)

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