Le vendredi 19 juillet 2019 à 08:48 +0200, Remi Collet a écrit :
Le 18/07/2019 à 18:26, Nicolas Chauvet a écrit :
> > "Build dependencies on Fedora packages which provide pkg-config
> > files SHOULD be expressed
> > as pkgconfig(foo) and not foo-devel, whether the dependent
> > package uses pkg-config or not."
>
> This is true for the fast majority of cases. Specially where there
> is
> only one provider of pkgconfig(foo).
>
> But sometime there is a need for a compat library and then I don't
> know if my package may uses the main library of the compat one.
> pkgconfig(foo) will pick one or the other, but using the package
> name
> is more deterministic to me.
>
Indeed, pkgconfig(foo) start to raise issues when multiple providers
exists.
One example is pkgconfig(openssl)
In quite a lot of cases versionned requires can disambiguate
Otherwise I suppose it would make sense to add a
Provides: pkgconfig(foo)(default)
in the package providing the primary Fedora implementation
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot