[Fedora-packaging] -devel arch dependencies

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 12 avril 2007 09:06, seth vidal a écrit :
> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 09:55 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>
>> > Orion Poplawski (orion at cora.nwra.com) said:
>> >> Here's a question.  Should -devel package requirements be of the
>> form:
>> >>
>> >> Requires: package-devel.%{arch}
>> >
>> > Doesn't work, so... no.
>>
>> Doesn't work, but interesting timing :)
>> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2007-April/002260.html
>>
>
> I'd like to offer a HELL NO in reference to that syntax.

Please someone explain JBJ that spec syntax must be parseable by humans,
and Arch(foo) will only make packagers try Version(foo).

Sanity demands foo(arch=x and version >y) if he wants packagers to
tokenize EVR for him

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Nicolas Mailhot