libgnomecanvas owns %{_libdir}/libglade

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Fri Nov 7 13:15:07 UTC 2008


Paul Howarth wrote, at 11/07/2008 10:11 PM +9:00:
>>> My main objective is to know whether a package that is going to put
>>> a symlink in %{_libdir}/libglade/2.0/ would need to have 'Requires:
>>> libgnomecanvas' because, if not anything, it looks a bit odd to me
>>> since it looks related to libglade.
>> libgnomecanvas has the dependency on libglade-2.0.so.0,
>> libgnomecanvas.src has "BuildRequires: libglade2-devel", so
>> I guess %_libdir/libglade{,/2.0} must be owned by libglade2. not
>> by libgnomecanvas.
> 
> You might expect so, but it's not the case:
> 
> $ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libglade/{,2.0/}
> libgnomecanvas-2.20.1.1-2.fc9.x86_64
> libgnomecanvas-2.20.1.1-2.fc9.x86_64


So what I am saying is that this is a bug in both libglade2
and libgnomecanvas.

c.f some similar example:
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469491

Regards,
Mamoru




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