Bug 502209
| Summary: | gsl-devel unnecessarily requires installation of 'gsl' contrary to Packaging Guidelines | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | R P Herrold <herrold> |
| Component: | gsl | Assignee: | Ivana Varekova <varekova> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | atorkhov, varekova |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-05-25 07:24:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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gsl-devel is a subpackage of gsl and should require base package as per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package I think, this is NOTABUG. Alexey is right - this is the base package and it is standard dependency in -devel package. Closing NOTABUG. |
Description of problem: gsl-devel unnecessarily (and improperly) Requires installation of 'gsl' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.12-3 How reproducible: A. Rebuild Current rawhide version B. [herrold@centos-5 drosenthal]$ sudo rpm -Uvh /home/herrold/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/gsl-devel-1.12-3orc.x86_64.rpm Password: error: Failed dependencies: gsl = 1.12-3orc is needed by gsl-devel-1.12-3orc.x86_64 libgsl.so.0()(64bit) is needed by gsl-devel-1.12-3orc.x86_64 libgslcblas.so.0()(64bit) is needed by gsl-devel-1.12-3orc.x86_64 [herrold@centos-5 drosenthal]$ Steps to Reproduce: as above Actual results: as above Expected results: no Require on GSL Additional info: see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Explicit_Requires Explicit Requires Packages must not contain explicit Requires on libraries except when absolutely necessary. When explicit library Requires are necessary, there should be a spec file comment justifying it. We generally rely on rpmbuild to automatically add dependencies on library SONAMEs ...