some tasks I won't be able to complete

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tue Dec 16 14:01:45 UTC 2008


Debarshi Ray wrote, at 12/16/2008 10:24 PM +9:00:
>> and there is a package for which I couldn't convince the packager to
>> requires -devel and not -static
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441814
> 
> The packager in question here is me and the package in question is
> nget. I did give my reasons for not making the change, but did not
> hear from you fro quite some time. I am still open to suggestions and
> discussions around the matter, and we can always re-open the bug if
> needed.
> 
> Cheers,
> Debarshi

I thought that in this case using "BuildRequires: foo-static"
was _mandatory_ ...

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries

Quoted:
Packages which explicitly need to link against the static version _must_ 
BuildRequire: foo-static, so that the usage can be tracked. 

Mamoru




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