broken deps outside of packagers control

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 19 April 2007 at 10:22, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:39:10 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> > No this sounds like a BAD solution to me. We are going to have this problem for 
> > every non noarch perl / python / ruby / xxx package that happens to split of a 
> > -devel package (for example because of .pc files). The proper solution is to 
> > either:
> > 1) make the push script smarter
> > 2) use a blacklist
> > 
> > Also notice that gnumeric-devel is not a full devel package, it contains a .so 
> > symlink but no header files as libspreadsheet.so.xxx so far is intended for use 
> > by gnumeric only. Besides that it contains an .idl file. I've always been 
> > amazed about the split-off of a seperate devel package for these 2 files (1 
> > symlink and file actually) but that is how I inhereted things from core.
> 
> Highly questionable packaging, and with a brief look I also find
> issues:

Is gg2-devel "highly questionable packaging" as well?

gg2-libs depends on libperl.so (for perl scripting support) and there's
no way around it. I don't want to disable perl scripting support.

Regards,
R.

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