mono / ".pc files in -devel packges" guideline

Chris Weyl cweyl at alumni.drew.edu
Fri May 12 15:23:25 UTC 2006


On 5/12/06, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 15:08 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
>
> > > Even if it is for development, is it worth forcing it off into a
> > > -devel package for just one file?
>
> If the .pc file is the ONLY file that would qualify for -devel (aka, no
> headers, no static libs, nothing to develop a program against), then
> there is no reason to force a -devel subpackage just for it.

So just to be explicit here, can we change Packaging/ReviewGuidelines from:

"- MUST: Files used by pkgconfig (.pc files) must be in a -devel package."

to something like:
"-MUST: If there is a -devel package, files used by pkgconfig (.pc
files) must be in -devel."

Thanks :)
                              -Chris

-- 
Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia




More information about the fedora-extras-list mailing list