Filtering question

Alec Leamas leamas.alec at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 08:34:06 CEST 2012


Hi!

I'm reviewing a package 2300  which at a glance seems to need filtering: 
it both Requires: and Provides: it's internal plugin libraries, many of 
which with generic names likely to clash with other packages symbols.

But when I look at the guidelines at 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering, they 
seem to be contradictory:
  - One one hand, a package "Must not export RPM dependency information 
which is not global in nature..." e. g., plugins.
  - On the other, a package which have binaries in PATH and/or system 
libraries must not use filtering; this applies also to sub-packages.

2300 is, at present, a package with binaries in $PATH (can't use 
filtering) providing and requiring it's own plugins (must be filtered). 
What should we do?

Split into two independent packages built from same source?

Thoughts?

--alec


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