[Fedora-packaging] Re: [Fwd: devel packages with only one .pc file]

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:53:46AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Forwarding this here too.
> > 
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>
> > Reply-To: List for Fedora Package Maintainers
> > <fedora-maintainers at redhat.com>
> > To: List for Fedora Package Maintainers <fedora-maintainers at redhat.com>
> > Subject: devel packages with only one .pc file
> > Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:11:26 +0200
> > 
> > I've recently got several bugs against package involving basically
> > splitting out only one pkg-config file into a -devel package, because
> > the packaging guidelines says so. I've done this for a couple of
> > packages, but its starting to get very ridicolous.
> > 
> > The one-file -devel package is totally useless
> 
> I would tend to agree, a single .pc file -devel pkg is a bit silly.
> Perhaps the existing rule:
> 
> - MUST: Files used by pkgconfig (.pc files) must be in a -devel package.
> 
> probably ought to be amended.

What good is a pc file w/o any other development bits? Maybe the
package is question has a bogus pc file that ought to be rm'd instead
of split off into a subpackage?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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