Please add libthai to rawhide. It's needed for proper thai support, and pango rpm will depend on it. Spec and source rpm at: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~behdad/fedora/libthai/ I'll be maintaining it. Note about magic in the spec file: libthai depends on this library called libdatrie. libdatrie is a data-structure implementaiton that the author of libthai ripped out of it. However, since libthai is the only user of that code, there's no reason to 1) package it separately, 2) use it as a shared library. So, we compile it as a libtool convenience library and include in libthai.so, and use symbol hiding to hide them (and other internal symbols).
Initial impressions (not going through the review guidelines yet) It would be good to have your comment about the libdatrie "magic" next to the Patch: line in the spec file, or maybe even better in the %build section where the magic happens. Requires: %{name} = %{PACKAGE_VERSION} I prefer to write %{version}-%{release} there, but this should be fine too. The devel package should require pkgconfig since it installs a pc file I think we have a semi-standard variation of the summary/description for -devel packages. Something like "Header files necessary to develop applications using libthai" or something to that end. Seems better than to use identical text. We don't package static libraries nowadays, unless there is a very good reason for it. Does it make any sense to put %{_docdir}/* in the file list ? normally packages don't install docs there, it is where rpm puts the things that are marked as %doc.
Trying to build in mock fails with: gcc -shared .libs/dummy.o -Wl,--whole-archive ../src/thctype/.libs/libthctype.a ../src/thstr/.libs/libthstr.a ../src/thcell/.libs/libthcell.a ../src/thinp/.libs/libthinp.a ../src/thrend/.libs/libthrend.a ../src/thcoll/.libs/libthcoll.a ../src/thbrk/.libs/libthbrk.a ../src/thwchar/.libs/libthwchar.a ../src/thwctype/.libs/libthwctype.a ../src/thwstr/.libs/libthwstr.a ../src/thwbrk/.libs/libthwbrk.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -L/var/tmp/libthai-0.1.7-root-mockbuild/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -ldatrie -Wl,-soname -Wl,libthai.so.0 -o .libs/libthai.so.0.1.1 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldatrie
Created attachment 145715 [details] full mock build log
Uploaded updated spec file and libthai-0.1.7-2.fc7.src.rpm fixing all issues above.
to make this build in mock with automake 1.10, I had to first add aclocal calls before the automake calls, and then add a BuildRequires: libtool With these changes, the rpm builds fine, and rpmlint has no complaints about the resulting base rpm, but for the -devel, it says: W: libthai-devel incoherent-version-dependency-on libthai libthai-0.1.7 0.1.7 E: libthai-devel standard-dir-owned-by-package /usr/share/man/man3 Trying to install the -devel package fails with error: Failed dependencies: libthai = libthai-0.1.7 is needed by libthai-devel-0.1.7-2.fc7.i386 after installing the base rpm. One thing I wondered about is the format of the files that are installed in /usr/share/libthai. They look binary, are they arch-independent ?
Created attachment 145765 [details] spec file the attached spec contains the fixes I needed to get libthai and libthai-devel to build and install without rpmlint warnings.
Ok, doing the review based upon the spec file attached in the previous comment. + rpmlint is silent + package name follows naming conventions + spec file name matches package name + package follows packaging guidelines + license is LGPL - spec license tag says GPL --> THIS NEEDS FIXING + COPYING is in %doc + spec is in English (haven't checked carefully if it is American or Canadian English...) + spec is legible and contains comments + md5sums of sources match upstream + packages built fine in mock on i386 + complete BuildRequires listed + no locale data to handle + calls ldconfig in %post/%postun + no Prefix: + owns all non-standard directories + no dupes in file lists + file lists have %defattr + %clean is present + uses macros for standard paths + package contains code + no doc subpackage necessary + %doc has only docs + -devel package is there and contains the right stuff + -devel requires pkgconfig + libraries are correctly packaged + -devel requires base package + .la files are stripped + no desktop file necessary + package owns no directories owned by others
btw, Behdad answered my question regarding the binary files in /usr/share: The are arch-independent.
Accepting the package with the provision that the License: tag is corrected for the initial build.
Package added to brew. Close this bug once built for rawhide.
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