On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:07:40PM +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
I just stumbled over an issue while I was trying to strip down an installation.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351779 is about mc which consists of the main package mc and the language package mc-lang.
mc-lang is created using the macro %lang_package as suggested in http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Packaging (The same is true for most (or all?) other packages which have a -lang subpackage.)
But the issue I found is that mc.spec defines Requires: %{name}-lang = %{version}
So that leaves two basic questions for me:
What is the purpose of a sub-package if it is always hard required by the main package?
And what I understood is the recommended (or even mandatory?) way to handle language package dependencies the one described here: http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Management/Dependencies/Language
If that's correct I think that the %lang_package macro is useless since it doesn't define a locale provides.
So what's the policy (or recommendation) actually?
The %name-lang is also provided by the bundle-lang-* RPMs, so we can leave out languages... Not sure where mc is in, but perhaps it should be in bundle-lang-gnome-* Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org