Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Improving compatibility with third party packages via more relaxed 'provides'

On 17/05/18 21:47, Andreas Schwab wrote:

On Mai 17 2018, Robert Munteanu wrote:

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As an openSUSE user I find that third party applications that provide RPM packages work most of the time, and sometimes need little depedendency tweaks. For instance ( presumably due to the way Fedora packages are built ) the Slack RPM package requires libappindicator, but the openSUSE package only providers libappindicator1.

Why does the package require libappindicator? The automatic dependency generator of rpm would generate a dependency on libappindicator.so.1()(64bit), which is provided by the library packages no matter how they are called.

Andreas.

Because they do, I guess the upstreams aren't rpm packaging experts, libappindicator is probably the biggest culprit from memory its not just Slack that has this issue I have found others, however I do not remember what they were. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B