*-debuginfo Requires

[Rex Dieter]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 15:00 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>>On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:55:40 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

>>>>I noticed today that (at least in Extras) <package>-debuginfo does not
>>>>Require <package> to be installed. Is there a usecase for that?

>>>That dependency would not be complete either, since package
>>>%{name}-debuginfo may contain debug information for all sub-packages, too.

>>At least having the base pkg installed is better than none at all.

> A "base package" with the same NEVR as the source rpm doesn't
> necessarily exist at all.

Ah, good point.  Relatively rare, but they do exist.

-- Rex