From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050109 Galeon/1.3.19 Description of problem: popt can't have a sub devel package while it is a sub package of rpm. This is a limitation of rpm. The inability to have a sub package of a sub package. I realize popt was originally development for rpm, but is now used by many other packages. The comment below was found in rpm.spec 4.3.2-21, and I see why. # XXX These may end up in popt-devel but it hardly seems worth the effort. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.4.1-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. grep popt rpm.spec Actual Results: Requires: popt = 1.9.1 %package -n popt %description -n popt %package -n popt-devel Summary: Files needed for development of popt. Requires: popt = %{version}-%{release} %description -n popt-devel The popt-devel package contains header files needed for popt %post -n popt -p /sbin/ldconfig %postun -n popt -p /sbin/ldconfig Expected Results: Requires: popt = 1.9.1 Additional info: This relates to my other bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149141
No. popt is maintained with rpm because popt is far far more extensively used than any other package. Drop it already, you're annoying.
So is your refusal to fix a bug.