Heads Up: e2fsprogs library split-out

[Ben Boeckel]

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Tom Lane wrote:

> Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> writes:
>> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>> Any chance that in the interim, e2fsprogs-devel could 
Require: these
>>> new split out packages (if it doesn't already)?
> 
>> For now it only requires libcom_err-devel, from inspection 
it looks like
>> that's the only set of headers that the e2fsprogs-devel 
headers include ...
> 
>> I could do this though - but when would it get removed 
again; would it
>> be better to go with the short sharp shock and just clean it 
up in the
>> early phase of F12? :)
> 
> +1 for just do it.  There is not a whole lot of point to 
refactoring the
> package if dependent packages don't pick up the refactoring.
> 
> AFAIR, the only reason postgresql BR's this is because 
libcom_err is
> depended on by krb5, which it uses.  I wonder whether the 
separate BR is
> still needed at all --- shouldn't a BR on krb5-devel be 
sufficient?
> 
> regards, tom lane
> 

If not, it's a packaging error in krb5.

- --Ben

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