Bug 1319249 - incorrect use of Requires(pre)?
Summary: incorrect use of Requires(pre)?
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ghostscript-fonts
Version: 25
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Zdenek Dohnal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-18 16:04 UTC by Honza Silhan
Modified: 2017-11-22 12:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-11-22 12:31:49 UTC
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Description Honza Silhan 2016-03-18 16:04:48 UTC
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

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-06-24 10:35:39 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 2 Jan Kurik 2016-07-26 05:13:38 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2017-11-16 19:14:52 UTC
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Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining
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Comment 4 Zdenek Dohnal 2017-11-22 12:31:49 UTC
ghostscript-fonts is deprecated by urw-base35-fonts in Fedora 27+, so I will not fix this issue.


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