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

Chris Weyl cweyl at alumni.drew.edu
Fri May 12 17:06:55 UTC 2006


On 5/12/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 08:23 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
> > 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."
>
> + If a devel files are contained in a non-devel package, the non-devel
> package MUST "provide: *-devel = %{version}-%{release}

I like that.  Makes the devel provides explicit, and makes it easier
to cleave it off into an actual -devel package down the road iff needs
be.

                       -Chris
-- 
Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia




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