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Re: [1.7] ITP: libassuan
On Nov 9 23:21, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Nov 6 15:35, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >> Charles Wilson wrote:
> >>> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP-gnupg2/release/libassuan/libassuan-1.0.5-1-src.tar.bz2
> >>> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP-gnupg2/release/libassuan/libassuan-1.0.5-1.tar.bz2
> >>> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP-gnupg2/release/libassuan/libassuan-devel/libassuan-devel-1.0.5-1.tar.bz2
> >>> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP-gnupg2/release/libassuan/libassuan-devel/setup.hint
> >>> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP-gnupg2/release/libassuan/setup.hint
>
> > Packaging looks ok, but is it really necessary to have a libassuan package which only
> > provides the documentation which you then need if you install libassuan-devel? I think
> > it would be simpler to haave only a libassuan-devel package.
>
> Having
> foo-VER-src.tar.bz2
> foo-devel-VER.tar.bz2
> without also having
> foo-VER.tar.bz2
> always seems to cause problems for me, and shipping
> foo-devel-VER.tar.bz2
> foo-devel-VER-src.tar.bz2
> just seems like cheating somehow.
Well, it's not without precedent. Fedora as well as OpenSuSE only
have a libassuan-devel package, without also providing a libassuan
package.
Corinna
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