Description of problem: The package sendmail-devel doesn't depend on sendmail, but at RHEL5, Fedora Core 5, 6 and Rawhide it does. Please fix this inconsistent behaviour soon. For further information see the build log of mimedefang. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sendmail-devel-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5 How reproducible: Everytime. Actual results: sendmail-devel doesn't require sendmail Expected results: sendmail-devel depends on sendmail Additional info: [12:00:22] < rsc> http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-4-epel/31617- mimedefang-2.62-1.el4/ppc/job.log - somebody an idea. The mimedefang package has buildrequires sendmail-devel [12:06:47] < Kick_> rsc: sendmail-devel from RHEL4 doesn't require sendmail [12:08:07] < rsc> Kick_: why? That sounds broken [12:09:28] < rsc> *very broken* [12:10:21] < G> of course it does ;) [12:11:46] < G> on the total off chance, there isn't a sponsor hanging about is there? [12:12:22] < Kick_> rsc: I have no idea, but I've checked it and it hasn't the requirement. (It has been added in F7, though) [12:12:51] < G> then again, what does sendmail-devel include? [12:13:13] < Kick_> G: the requirements ? [12:13:17] < G> sendmail these days is just a static link to 'something better' like postfix no? [12:13:32] < Kick_> $ rpm -qp --requires sendmail-devel-8.13.1- 3.RHEL4.5.ppc.rpm [12:13:32] < Kick_> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 [12:13:32] < Kick_> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 [12:13:42] < G> oh right, I get, you, sendmail-devel requires stuff like postfix-devel? [12:14:06] < Kick_> no [12:14:07] < G> (or is meant to) [12:17:02] < rsc> Kick_: Fix it :) [12:17:28] < rsc> Kick_: are you commiting the fix already to your internal CVS or should I open a bug report? ;) [12:17:46] < Kick_> rsc: not my package ;-) And getting fixes into RHEL is a lengthy process [12:17:55] < Kick_> rsc: please bugzilla [12:19:53] < rsc> Kick_: lengthy process? Just give me access to the CVS ;) [12:23:33] < Kick_> rsc: I just went to the next room where the sendmail maintainer sits ;-) Thomas is looking into it, but mentioned that nothing of sendmail-devel actually requires anything from sendmail as there are p.e. no shared libs [12:24:07] < Kick_> ... but this doesn't answer why he added the dep in Fedora [12:29:07] < rsc> Kick_: exactly.
Created attachment 153043 [details] fedora-4-epel/31617-mimedefang-2.62-1.el4/ppc/build.log
Created attachment 153044 [details] fedora-4-epel/31617-mimedefang-2.62-1.el4/ppc/root.log
Thomas, ping?
sendmail-devel has no dependency on sendmail, because there are no shared libraries in the sendmail and sendmail-devel package. sendmail-cf, sendmail-devel and sendmail-doc has got the dependency in FC-4, to be consistent to other sub-packages.
Well Thomas...either adding the dependency from -devel to the base package at sendmail everywhere or nowhere, this has to be consistent; everything else would be just blahfoo.
Do you really want me to kick it out again for FC-4+ and RHEL-5+?
Do what you want. My mimedefang package now depends at any branch on sendmail and sendmail-devel to work around such crazy Red Hat things (just to be sure that it works when you're dropping the requirement from FC-4+ and RHEL-5+) ;-)
The requirements will be there from now on. Closing as NOT A BUG.