Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 502209
gsl-devel unnecessarily requires installation of 'gsl' contrary to Packaging Guidelines
Last modified: 2009-05-25 03:24:05 EDT
Description of problem: gsl-devel unnecessarily (and improperly) Requires installation of 'gsl' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.12-3 How reproducible: A. Rebuild Current rawhide version B. [herrold@centos-5 drosenthal]$ sudo rpm -Uvh /home/herrold/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/gsl-devel-1.12-3orc.x86_64.rpm Password: error: Failed dependencies: gsl = 1.12-3orc is needed by gsl-devel-1.12-3orc.x86_64 libgsl.so.0()(64bit) is needed by gsl-devel-1.12-3orc.x86_64 libgslcblas.so.0()(64bit) is needed by gsl-devel-1.12-3orc.x86_64 [herrold@centos-5 drosenthal]$ Steps to Reproduce: as above Actual results: as above Expected results: no Require on GSL Additional info: see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Explicit_Requires Explicit Requires Packages must not contain explicit Requires on libraries except when absolutely necessary. When explicit library Requires are necessary, there should be a spec file comment justifying it. We generally rely on rpmbuild to automatically add dependencies on library SONAMEs ...
gsl-devel is a subpackage of gsl and should require base package as per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package I think, this is NOTABUG.
Alexey is right - this is the base package and it is standard dependency in -devel package. Closing NOTABUG.