broken deps outside of packagers control

[Peter Gordon]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:59 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> In that case can gnumeric please be blacklisted, and the i386 version removed 
> from the x86_64 repo?
> 
> Thanks & regards,
> 
> Hans

Unfortunately, it's not that simple - gnumeric-devel is a proper
subpackage of gnumeric, and as a good -devel subpackage, it properly
requires its base package - which means you'll have gnumeric installed
twice in a multilib setup, for each of these two arches.

A potential way to ease this is to split out a -libs subpackage which
contains the shared libraries (which are the things a -devel package
really needs), then make both the base package and the -devel subpackage
depend on it via a fully-versioned Requires tag. (See, for example, my
recent split of the openbox packaging.)

Then, gnumeric and gnumeric-devel would depend on gnumeric-libs, but you
would have only one instance of gnumeric installed (for the parent
arch).

Hope that helps.
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