devel package problem

[Rex Dieter]

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I have the package katapult
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196262
> 
> rpmlint asks me to put the static libraries in -devel, which I did.
> Now I have katapult and katapult-devel
> 
> during installation, I fell on
> 
> root(i386)[0]$rpm -ivh katapult-*
> error: Failed dependencies:
>       libkatapult.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386
>       libkatapultcatalog.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386
>       libkatapultdisplay.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386
> 
> the katapult package needs
> %{_libdir}/lib%{name}.so
> %{_libdir}/lib%{name}catalog.so
> %{_libdir}/lib%{name}display.so
> to install

FYI, I think you're thinking these are static libs?  They're not, but 
they're not -devel-type symlinks to shared libs either.  In short, put 
them in the main pkg.

> how can I ask katapult to pull katapult-devel as dependency ?

You don't.

-- Rex