Description of problem:

Installing libdb-cxx-devel results in installing a symlink /usr/lib64/libdb_cxx.so that points to a non-existing file. The target of the symlink, /usr/lib/libdb_cxx-5.3.so, is present in the libdb-cxx package.

The guidelines say: "Devel packages are an example of a package that must require their base packages using a fully versioned dependency." If this guideline is followed the libdb-cxx-devel would require libdb-cxx and installing the libdb-cxx-devel would not result in a dangling symlink.

The /usr/include/db_cxx.h is the header file for the libdb_cxx library, and doesn't make sense without it. It should be part of the libdb-cxx-devel package rather than the libdb-devel package.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libdb-cxx-devel-5.3.15-3.fc18

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Try building a package that build-requires libdb-cxx-devel in koji

Actual results:

Build fails

Expected results:

Build succeeds

Additional info:

For Fedora 15-17 there is no libdb-cxx package. Instead the libdb-cxx-devel package itself contains the runtime library. So in this case there is no dangling symlink when installing the libdb-cxx-devel package. However, in this case, since the runtime library is in the devel package, the devel package is needed at runtime which is another guidelines violation.

The guidelines say: "Specifically, -devel packages must be used to contain files which are intended solely for development or needed only at build-time."