Bug 486164

Summary: rpmbuild should remove duplicate requires
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stepan Kasal <kasal>
Component: rpmAssignee: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Stepan Kasal 2009-02-18 17:46:20 UTC 
rpm -qR postfix or rpm -qR sendmail starts with /bin/sh repeated five times and continues with several other binaries repeated two or three times.

I know that rpmbuild removes duplicates generated by external scripts.
Shouldn't it take care about duplicates it generates itself as well?
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2009-02-19 00:06:50 UTC 
Having multiple /bin/sh listings does not mean duplicates. E.g. all
the /bin/sh dependencies have different context markers like Requires(pre): etc,
that is not duplicate, the context markers are different.

All *identical* duplicate dependencies have been filtered for nearly a decade.
Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2009-03-18 13:41:50 UTC 
Like Jeff said, identical dependencies are filtered out, it's just the default --requires format which is misleading here:

[pmatilai@localhost ~]$ rpm -q --qf "[%{requireflags:deptype}: %{requirename}\n]" sendmail|grep /bin/sh
pre: /bin/sh
post: /bin/sh
preun: /bin/sh
postun: /bin/sh
auto: /bin/sh