On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:19:41PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
$ yum list \*-static | wc -l
115
$ yum list \*-devel-static | wc -l
8
$ yum list \*-static | grep -v devel | wc -l
108
Perhaps I only have a nit-picky day, but
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libr...
clearly mentions *-static as in foo-static - and not foo-devel-static.
Could this part of the guidelines be clarified, please?
There should be no foo-devel-static. But I am not sure that there is a need
to change the guideline since it doesn't mention the devel-static
possibility.
At some point this was unclear and some devel-static packages were done,
but hopefully this is a thing from the past.
Related to this ambiguity in the naming guidelines, it's kind of
pointless
if some packages start creating -static subpackages, which provide a
virtual -devel *and* a virtual -devel-static package in addition to a
This should never be the case. Fist there should not be any -devel-static
package, and second the -static package should not provide a virtual -devel
if there are shared libraries.
But once again, I think that the guidelines are clear on that subject:
# Static libraries and shared libraries. In this case, the static libraries must be
placed in a *-static subpackage. Separating the static libraries from the other
development files in *-devel allow us to track this usage by checking which packages
BuildRequire the *-static package. The intent is that whenever possible, packages will
move away from using these static libraries, to the shared libraries.
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Pat