[Fedora-packaging] Policy question: how tight should cross-subpackage Requires be?

[Hans de Goede]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Lun 5 mai 2008 18:40, Tom Lane a écrit :
> 
>> Given a single SRPM generating multiple sub-RPMs, some of which depend
>> on each other, how hard should the maintainer try to ensure that
>> matching versions of the sub-RPMs are installed?
> 
> If you fear that mismatched subpackages may not work well together,
> I'd have them all conflict with versions < exact same build. What
> you're trying to describe is a conflict. Any sane repository will
> always have subpackages at the same build level, and not self-conflict
> (that's the main reason we ask people to avoid conflicts today; it
> wouldn't apply in your case).
> 

Ugh, no no no, thats just ugly for no good reason, just add a Requires to the 
full version of the base package, or the sub-package that the sub-package needs.

Regards,

Hans