Georg Sauthoff wrote:
Hello,
when packaging a C/C++ program, the rpm automatic dependency feature
usually works well for shared libraries.
That mean when program 'bar' needs libfoo-devel at build time it's
sufficient to add
BuildRequires: libfoo-devel
and I can omit
Requires: libfoo
because rpm automatically adds something like:
libfoo.so.1()(64bit)
Of course, I could still add a superfluous
Requires: libfoo
and then the resulting binary package would contain a redundant
dependency like this:
libfoo
libfoo.so.1()(64bit)
Has Fedora a policy against such redundant dependencies?
Yes, see
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_explicit_requ...
-- Rex