Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

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On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:49:13 -0400 (EDT), Mike Burger wrote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > While looking through the updates mail, I saw something that sounded
> intriguing, "hamster-applet."  Did a yum info query on it, then thought
> I'd install it to have a look.  But it wanted to drag in a ridiculous
> number of dependencies, most of them devel packages.
> >
> > Surely a precompiled non-devel RPM shouldn't be dragging in development
> packages?  That's got to be a major design screw up.  Doesn't
> > incorporating a package into a repo involve some sort of checking
> procedure to reject packages trying to do that sort of nonsense?
> (Non-devel packages depending on devel packages.)

Yes, the initial review before a new package is accepted into the
Fedora Collection. But later on, the packager can update the package
without needing any review. Usually that's when packaging bugs return
into the package.

> <snip>
> 
> Quite often, those -devel packages have library files included on which
> the non-devel package depends.

Uhm, exactly *that* would be a packaging bug. ;)

> Packages that depend on the kernel-devel
> packages spring to mind, but many others do, as well.

Many others? Hopefully not. Here it's:

--> Processing Dependency: evolution-data-server-devel >= 1.4.0 for package: gnome-python2-evolution

Summary     : Python bindings for interacting with evolution-data-server
Description :
This module contains a wrapper that allows the use of evolution-data-server
via Python.

# rpm -qpl gnome-python2-evolution-2.22.0-4.fc10.i386.rpm  
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/ebook.so
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/ecal.so

It contains an explicit dependency on

  evolution-data-server-devel >= 1.4.0

without a comment in the spec file.

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