Attached is a template that can be used for generating library spec files via fedora-newrpmspec.
Created attachment 126197 [details] Template for library spec files
(Cc'ing the FE list for comments) Looks useful. I think this should be also automagically used for lib*, *-libs and *-lib specfiles. A quick look at the FC and FE package lists tells me that this would result in few enough false positives. Some comments: I'm inclined to drop %{_datadir}/%{name} from the main package because 1) it's rarely used in library packages, and 2) library packages including such things are not multilib parallel installable which I think is not something we want to kind of encourage in a spec template. Inclusion of *.pc files should walk hand in hand with Requires: pkgconfig in -devel packages. Do you think it would be a good idea to add that dependency in the -devel boilerplate? Another option IMO would be to drop the pkgconfig files from the template's %files list. I'm not sure why installing *.m4 in /usr/share/aclocal doesn't usually in packages get the same treatment as with pkgconfig through an added dependency on automake, so maybe 1) leave it as is in the template, or 2) discuss about "mandating" Requires: automake on packages that install stuff to /usr/share/aclocal?
Slightly modified version added to CVS (the project, not the packages dir). Comments welcome.
Works for me.
Included in 1.6-1, which will soon hit the repos.