Bug 2217262 - RPM packaging of gsl-devel has "Requires:" automake - brings in huge unnecessary stuff
Summary: RPM packaging of gsl-devel has "Requires:" automake - brings in huge unnecess...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gsl
Version: 8.8
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Pavel Cahyna
QA Contact: CS System Management SST QE
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Reported: 2023-06-25 16:55 UTC by mark@galassi.org
Modified: 2023-06-25 16:58 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-160694 0 None None None 2023-06-25 16:58:11 UTC

Description mark@galassi.org 2023-06-25 16:55:05 UTC 
Description of problem:

RPM packaging of gsl-devel has "Requires:" automake, which is unneeded and causes problems.  It is clearly incorrect to have Requires: on automake -- at most it should be "BuildRequires:".  This brings in a large amount of Perl packages.  Note that gsl is a tight math library that typically should only require the standard math library.

Recommendation: please change, in gsl.spec, the line:

Requires: pkgconfig, automake

to read instead:

Requires: pkgconfig
BuildRequires: automake



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

gsl-devel-2.5-1

How reproducible:

Type:

$ dnf repoquery --installed --whatrequires automake

The answer will include something like:

gsl-devel-0:2.5-1.el8.x86_64

(or just look at the gsl.spec file for el8)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install gsl-devel gsl
2. dnf repoquery --installed --whatrequires automake | grep -i gsl
3. observe that it says: "gsl-devel-0:2.5-1.el8.x86_64"

Actual results:

gsl-devel-0:2.5-1.el8.x86_64

Expected results:

(blank output)

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