broken deps outside of packagers control

[Christopher Stone]

On 4/18/07, Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hans does this sound good to you? My pygame package has the same fate
and so far the best solution presented to me was to just remove the
devel package and bundle everything in a single package (because no
one ever uses pygame-devel presumably).  This sounds like a better
solution to me however.