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Description of problem:
Can RPM be enhanced to support the Weak Dependency Tags:
Recomments:
Supplements:
Suggests:
Enhances:

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):rpm-4.11.3-21.el7


How reproducible:100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Attempt to use Weak Deps tags
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Actual results:
RPM cannot build

Expected results:
RPM can build

Additional info:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:WeakDependencies

What's the actual use-case here?

Is it just to be able to build packages (eg from Fedora) where weak dependencies have been used without modification, or something else?

My current use case is to build Fedora packages without modification, but over time I wouldn't be surprised if I started building packages with these bits in mind.

I'm also thinking a bit about forward compatibility with RHEL8.

We will have a look which features of rpm will be made available to keep reasonable forward compatibility with RHEL 8 and contemporary Fedora versions. But right now we are not adding weak dependencies to RHEL.