Comment # 13 on bug 1179521 from Benjamin Greiner

(In reply to Stefan Br���ns from comment #12)
> rpm -E 'requires_eq libhdf5' expands to "%nil". It has to include soversion,
> i.e. libhdf5-103 (currently). Obviously, this does not scale ...

But rpm -E '%requires_eq hdf5' expands to  'Requires: hdf5 = 1.10.8'. The macro
requires a proper package name. It does not work with symbolic rpm
capabilities. The hdf5 package has the correct version and depends on all
libraries.

Your rejections are based on a wrong assumption

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/966082
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/966084

The only disadvantage is that it also installs the command line tools. I could
only see that as a valid reason for rejection in the vtk specifel, because you
could want to keep a shlib package pure shlibs.

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/966086

On the other hand a more complex expression to get the correct soversion would
be possible, but I am sure you won't like that either.

$ rpm -E 'Requires: %(rpm -q --requires hdf5 | grep 'libhdf5-[0-9]*')'
Requires: libhdf5-103 = 1.10.8


> On the other hand, HDFGroup has adjusted their versioning policy and relaxed
> the check:
> https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/pull/1494/files
> 
> I.e. we can now (hopefully) rely on the soversion, which should be bumped
> when major/minor changes, but can be kept when only the release changes.

This is not in Factory, yet. The proposed workaround works, and has worked for
years. We can and should use it until
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1196014
is ready or an update for the 1.10 release is available.