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Description of problem:

The devel package for Apache httpd is inconsistently named across distributions, and this means it is a headache to create Apache modules that can be deployed across multiple distributions.

I recommend adding "Provides: apache-httpd-24-devel" as a virtual dependency to the httpd headers RPM package but am open to suggestions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Develop and Apache httpd module
2. Depend on httpd-devel

Actual results:

Dependency failures on non Redhat distros.

Expected results:

RPM build works everywhere.

Additional info:

Further link: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1160100

Thanks for reporting this.

It doesn't make sense to me to add virtual provides without any explicit agreement about what they mean, i.e. does this imply a specific filesystem layout, etc.  If the other distributions are similar enough to the Fedora-derived httpd - in a way they are willing to guarantee - they should just provide httpd-devel, IMO.