[Fedora-packaging] erroneous provides
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Jan 26 18:12:32 UTC 2007
Matthias Clasen (mclasen at redhat.com) said:
> Its hard to make that very precise, but it should mean something like
>
> Look at the list of provides and verify that all of them are
> intentional. Use repoquery to check if other packages already provide
> the same thing, and if so, look closer. This is generally ok if
> the provides is for a .so that lives outside of LIBDIR, otherwise
> it indicates a potential problem.
Maybe also:
If your package provides perl(<anything>), and either:
a) your package is not a perl module
- or -
b) your package is not named the same <anything>
it is almost certainly a bug.
Bill
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