devel packages with only one .pc file

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Sep 5 14:18:19 UTC 2006


Le Mar 5 septembre 2006 15:25, Alexander Larsson a écrit :
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 15:19 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Le Mar 5 septembre 2006 12:43, Alexander Larsson a écrit :
>> > On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:02 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>
>> >> Perhaps in the case of mono, where the main package has no difference
>> >> between the runtime and the development files (one in the same) then
>> >> the .pc file can stay in the main package.  I'm OK with that.
>> >
>> > So, can we change the packaging guidelines to say this? (Otherwise
>> I'll
>> > be flooded with more bug reports.)
>>
>> Even if a language does not distinguish between runtime and build files,
>> you may still have to pull stuff used only for building (compiler, tools
>> for %check, i18n, etc)
>
> We don't require gcc or binutils in every package that includes a .pc
> file, do we?

That's only because those are the common ones.
Make replacements, libs used for unit tests, etc... are not covered by the
default package set.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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