Created attachment 104643 [details]
patch that removes filtering

find-requires dead and gone. if anything, I will remove
find-requires and find-provides from rpm.

Look at /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps for the replacement (which
uses the same internal dependency generator as rpm).

colors are not set if/when find-{requires,provides}
are used, and there is other missing
data in packages as well.

I'll bite. rpmdeps doesn't output any information related to colors at
all, so how is it missing when something else is used?

rpmdeps is a replacement for find-requires that uses the
internal dependency extraction (which filters GLIBC_PRIVATE).

rpmdeps does not generate colors, nor can colors be generated
external to rpm without breaking/changing the ancient find-requires
API.

So the only way to add coloring to package files is to use the internal
dependency generator, which has been in "production" since RHL 9.

There is --debug in rpmdeps if you need tool to identify what colors
are assigned. Other options could be added if that is your quest.
My goal writing rpmdeps was to supply a replacement for find-requires
that filtered using the internal dependency extractor, not otherwise.

Note that there is much much more than adding a color tag going
on internally. There are other properties, like ensuring that
dependencies are sorted, and that dependencies are attached per-file,
in a forward <-> backward compatible way that make any attempt
to create the information in helper using an API more than a bit
tricky.

Hm, OK. Unfortunately, I have a need to filter deps; I see this
leading to problems. :/

What problems?

You identify what you want filtered, I add internal to rpm.