On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:30:46 +0200, Andreas Schwab schwab@redhat.com wrote:
The separate "bar" package still is entirely irrelevant
It kills your entire argument.
Andreas.
It still doesn't. libfoo update would need to come first. First come, first served. And what packaging techniques to apply in the libfoo update has been the topic of this thread:
| I have a package (keyutils) that produces three RPMs: keyutils | (programs), keyutils-libs and keyutils-devel. | | ... | | So does the keyutils rpm need an explicit Requires on the keyutils-libs | rpm in the specfile or is the implicit library dependency sufficient?
Whether any other update built against libfoo would also benefit from an explicit dep is covered by the guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/152426