Bug 461183 - Possible issue with Requires: ncurses
Summary: Possible issue with Requires: ncurses
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libpfm
Version: 5.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: William Cohen
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-04 19:04 UTC by Dave Malcolm
Modified: 2013-03-11 17:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-03-11 17:39:29 UTC
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Proposed patch to make libpfm-devel have correct dependency (1.28 KB, application/octet-stream)
2009-04-08 13:59 UTC, William Cohen
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Description Dave Malcolm 2008-09-04 19:04:29 UTC
Description of problem:
The description of libpfm-devel has this text at the end:
"Requires: ncurses"

Is this meant to be in the %description as text, or should this have been processed as package dependency metadata?

rpm -qR doesn't show a requirement on ncurses, FWIW

(FWIW, spotted by rpmlint's tag-in-description test, which has this description, which may or may not be appropriate in this case: "Something that looks like a tag was found in the package's description. This may indicate a problem where the tag was not actually parsed as a tag but just textual description content, thus being a no-op. Verify if this is the case, and move the tag to a place in the specfile where %description won't fool the specfile parser, and rebuild the package.")

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libpfm-devel-3.2-0.060926.4.el5.i386

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qi libpfm-devel

Comment 1 William Cohen 2009-04-08 13:59:41 UTC
Created attachment 338711 [details]
Proposed patch to make libpfm-devel have correct dependency

This patch should move the requires so it isn't assumed to be part of the description for libpfm-devel.

Comment 2 Frank Ch. Eigler 2013-03-11 17:33:51 UTC
Low priority, but trivial patch available.


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