broken deps outside of packagers control

[Christopher Stone]

On 4/18/07, Christopher Stone <chris.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Well I dug up the thread on pygame, I guess Michael is correct in my
case[1], which reminds me I still need to fix up some dependencies for
Fedora 7 on that package...

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-December/msg00247.html