There is a large number of "-devel" packages with a summary that should have been a cut&paste error, as it has only dynamic libraries, but the summary, as per "yum search" says: Header files and static libraries for development using ... these are: Xaw3d-devel liboil-devel libshout-devel orc-devel q-devel recode-devel vanessa_adt-devel vanessa_logger-devel autotrace-devel brlapi-devel libacl-devel libattr-devel libftdi-devel mopac7-devel smpeg-devel vcdimager-devel These appear to not match the guideline, as it should use either -devel or -static, not both: gpac-devel-static infiniband-diags-devel-static libibverbs-devel-static db4-devel-static elfutils-devel-static elfutils-libelf-devel-static kpathsea-devel-static pciutils-devel-static otherwise, these are in error: SDL-static arpack-static boost-static cdparanoia-static fife-static gdal-static gmp-static gpm-static isdn4k-utils-static libindi-static libmthca-static librdmacm-static libusb-static libusb1-static mingw32-wxWidgets-static mingw32-zlib-static proj-static protobuf-lite-static protobuf-static ruby-static ustr-static util-vserver-static zlib-static I am not sure about -debug packages, so, worth mentioning: ustr-debug-static And the main reason of the bug report, and the condition I was told do to so in a review of a package I made, are these -devel packages with static libraries: openafs-devel binutils-devel yasm-devel
This is probably best done as a tracking bug, where bugs against the individual packages could be marked as dependent on this.
Attempting to create a proper bug tracking. The packages with -devel-static also have a -devel, so they should comply with guidelines. The bug should be minor/enhancement for all but the last 3 ones, as the others do comply with the guidelines.
I have installed smpeg-devel and vcdimager-devel but not sure if should or where to make a bug report as these are not listed in packages, and come from rpmfusion-free-updates repository. Same for openafs-devel that has only static libraries.
binutils-devel and yasm-devel should be correct because they actually have a virtual provides of -static.
rpmfusion has a bug tracker (https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/), you could file there for things that come from rpmfusion such as smpeg or openafs.
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