Fedora Extras Development Package Report

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:29:11 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 08:17 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 08:10 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > 
> > >>Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:29 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>>I have to reiterate my mantra:
> > >>
> > >>>>BuildRequires: libGL.so.1 libGLU.so.1 XFree86-devel
> > >>
> > >>>>Is sufficient, portable and even works with ancient versions of RHL.
> > >>
> > >>>IIRC, we are not catering to ancient versions of RHL.
> > >>
> > >>Remember too: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Currently, it is broken, otherwise we wouldn't be having this
> > > discussion.
> > 
> > I was talking about
> > BuildRequires: libGL.so.1 libGLU.so.1 XFree86-devel
> > 
> > which, IMO of course, works and certainly isn't broken.
> 
> ... and is a workaround. Build requirements should IMO only be on
> the .so files or their corresponding packages which in turn should
> require the corresponding base packages without which they won't work
> properly.

We've been here before (at least a few times in fedora.us QA). IIRC,
there have been related bug reports in RH bugzilla, too.

There used to be a "libGLU" virtual provides in xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU
in FC2, but only in FC2. Similarly, XFree86-Mesa-libGL still provides
"Mesa" (non-versioned) just like older XFree86-Mesa-libGL packages do.