> On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 19:09 -0400, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: >> I'm currently reviewing a request for Telepathy-Qt4, which currently >> only provides a static library: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520663 >> >> It seems to me there are two different options: >> - rename package to telepathy-qt4-static -- might cause administrative >> hassle if and when upstream enables dynamically-linked libraries > > This is not really an option. (You, too, can patch the software to build > dynamically instead; it often is the least path of resistance.) Alternatively, though I prefer the above, if you do keep it static, keep the package/SRPM name telepathy-qt4 and put the libs in a -static subpackage, which should obviate some of the issues later. >> - keep it as before, and just leave the main package empty. Make >> -devel virtually Provides: -static. > > AFAIK this is what is usually done in case there are no shared > libraries. Of course the static library can be put in a separate -static > package, but then one would have to make the -devel package require it > in any case if there is no shared library available..? Correct. >> Should the -doc subpackage depend on -devel? Should it be called >> -devel-doc or -static-doc, or just -doc? > > In 99.9% of the cases, plain -doc will do. I would break it in parts > only if the documentation is ridiculously big, say, like kdelibs-apidocs > (281MB compressed, 628MB uncompressed, and still it's in one package!!). > > That is: if a user bothers to install -doc separately, then it's assumed > that s/he wants to get all the documentation, and is not bothered if > there's a bit of something extra on the side. If the docs are small (a few MB or less, YMMV), no subpackage is really needed, though you still can if you want to. -J > -- > Jussi Lehtola > Fedora Project Contributor > jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org > > -- > Fedora-packaging mailing list > Fedora-packaging@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging > -- in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie