MultilibTricks

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:
>  AFAIk that is not what the guidelines say, and if they do say that then
> they should be fixed, a foo-libs package does not need to Require the main
> package,

I found where the confusion is
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines:

SHOULD: Usually, subpackages other than devel should require the base
package using a fully versioned dependency.

Note its a should and not a must.  I think a -libs subpackage is a
clear counter example that doesn't fall in the 'usual' wording. I
would daresay that usually, -libs subpackages don;t require the base
package.

Do we really need that SHOULD?  Or do we need to expand on it a little?

-jef