Hi list, I would like to propose a change in our packaging guidelines, specifically the part about bundling static libraries in a *-devel-static subpackage (see: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines#Exception). How about we follow what Fedora does and instead of putting the static lib in a subpackages, we put it in the "main" package instead and add a: Provides: bundled(foo) = $version into the spec file? The full guidelines are here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_Libraries?rd=Packaging:Bundled_Librar... This has the advantage that we don't have this additional -static package, which is relatively pointless beside keeping track of bundled libraries. Querying the bundled packages can be then done as follows: rpm -qa --qf "%{name} %{providename}\n"|grep bundled or via zypper: zypper search --provides 'bundled(*)' Any opinions/thoughts? Cheers, Dan -- Dan Čermák <dcermak@suse.com> Software Engineer Development tools SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Tel: +49-911-74053-0; Fax: +49-911-7417755; https://www.suse.com/ GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)