Bug 817888 (FE-STATIC_LIBRARY)

Summary: Inconsistency with static library packages and library guidelines
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Paulo Andrade <paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andrade>
Component: distributionAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version: 16CC: dennis, rvokal
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Bug Depends On: 817935, 817940, 817942, 817944, 817945, 817947, 817948, 817949, 817950, 817951, 817952, 817953, 817955, 817956    
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Description Paulo Andrade 2012-05-01 17:24:24 UTC
There is a large number of "-devel" packages with a
summary that should have been a cut&paste error, as
it has only dynamic libraries, but the summary, as
per "yum search" says:

Header files and static libraries for development using ...

these are:

Xaw3d-devel
liboil-devel
libshout-devel
orc-devel
q-devel
recode-devel
vanessa_adt-devel
vanessa_logger-devel
autotrace-devel
brlapi-devel
libacl-devel
libattr-devel
libftdi-devel
mopac7-devel
smpeg-devel
vcdimager-devel

These appear to not match the guideline, as it
should use either -devel or -static, not both:

gpac-devel-static
infiniband-diags-devel-static
libibverbs-devel-static
db4-devel-static
elfutils-devel-static
elfutils-libelf-devel-static
kpathsea-devel-static
pciutils-devel-static

otherwise, these are in error:

SDL-static
arpack-static
boost-static
cdparanoia-static
fife-static
gdal-static
gmp-static
gpm-static
isdn4k-utils-static
libindi-static
libmthca-static
librdmacm-static
libusb-static
libusb1-static
mingw32-wxWidgets-static
mingw32-zlib-static
proj-static
protobuf-lite-static
protobuf-static
ruby-static
ustr-static
util-vserver-static
zlib-static

I am not sure about -debug packages, so,
worth mentioning:

ustr-debug-static


And the main reason of the bug report, and the
condition I was told do to so in a review of a
package I made, are these -devel packages with
static libraries:

openafs-devel
binutils-devel
yasm-devel

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2012-05-01 18:01:20 UTC
This is probably best done as a tracking bug, where bugs against the individual packages could be marked as dependent on this.

Comment 2 Paulo Andrade 2012-05-01 20:41:06 UTC
Attempting to create a proper bug tracking.

The packages with -devel-static also have a -devel, so they should
comply with guidelines.

The bug should be minor/enhancement for all but the last 3 ones,
as the others do comply with the guidelines.

Comment 3 Paulo Andrade 2012-05-01 21:10:28 UTC
I have installed smpeg-devel and vcdimager-devel but not sure if should
or where to make a bug report as these are not listed in packages, and
come from rpmfusion-free-updates repository.

Same for openafs-devel that has only static libraries.

Comment 4 Paulo Andrade 2012-05-01 21:14:06 UTC
binutils-devel and yasm-devel should be correct because they
actually have a virtual provides of -static.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2012-05-01 21:15:34 UTC
rpmfusion has a bug tracker (https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/), you could file there for things that come from rpmfusion such as smpeg or openafs.

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