[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: ensure sub-packages are kept in sync automatically (#1105)

Panu Matilainen notifications at github.com
Thu Mar 5 15:29:22 UTC 2020


The vast majority of packages out there have at least one sub-package, and most of them want to ensure the sub-packages stay in sync with the main package, simply to avoid having to test and/or support packages with arbitrary theoretically legitimate combinations which can lead to time-consuming corner-case bugs. So on top of all the automatically generated soname dependencies and such, we have specs full of constructs like this to force it:

```
Requires:       %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
```

This is ugly and error-prone boilerplate in specs, and sometimes creates artificial dependency loops that mess up with ordering. And so on. Rpm should automate this somehow.



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