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We've identified your package for having `Requires(pre)` RPM flag without `Requires` [1]. `Requires(pre)` rpm tag could be interpreted wrongly, so to prevent any harm to Fedora users I am notifying you about this fact. Any package that is specified in `Requires(pre)` could be freely removed. Citing from RPM pages: ``` If there are no other dependencies on the package providing /usr/sbin/useradd, that package is permitted to be removed from the system after installation(!) ``` [2] If you really rely on dependency just during the installation process and your package don't necessary require the dependency for the proper run of your application then ignore this bug report and close it as NOTABUG. Otherwise add to your spec file additional `Requires` for the dependency, please. [1] paste.fedoraproject.org/341611/82208431 [2] http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/MoreOnDependencies
(In reply to Jan Silhan from comment #0) > We've identified your package for having `Requires(pre)` RPM flag without > `Requires` [1]. `Requires(pre)` rpm tag could be interpreted wrongly, so to > prevent any harm to Fedora users I am notifying you about this fact. Indeed I see it does. > > Any package that is specified in `Requires(pre)` could be freely removed. > Citing from RPM pages: > ``` > If there are no other dependencies on the package providing > /usr/sbin/useradd, that package is permitted to be removed from the system > after installation(!) > ``` [2] It's grep(1) that's used in the pre section. mv(1) and test(1) are used there too, should I add that these in the Requires(pre) as well? > > If you really rely on dependency just during the installation process and > your package don't necessary require the dependency for the proper run of > your application then ignore this bug report and close it as NOTABUG. > Otherwise add to your spec file additional `Requires` for the dependency, > please. I'm fairly familiar with the code in the main application and IIRC it doesn't rely on any utilities to function, there are a couple of other applications which I'm not so familiar with but they are probably written in a similar way so they shouldn't need any utilities. There are a couple of scripts that might need some utilities in the package but they are not core functionality and are not required for normal application usage. So I'm leaning toward closing this as NOTABUG, not withstanding any feedback you might have on the question above. Ian
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle. Changing version to '25'.
for scripts it's fine to be defined as Requires(pre). I am sorry for late response.
* scripts -> tools required in scriplets