[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Failure to report the package that requires the specified package (Issue #2439)

[Panu Matilainen]

This is actually expected behavior, --whatrequires means drastically different things in rpm and dnf. Rpm only searches for literal requires of that capability, whereas dnf resolves the argument into a package and everything it provides. 

For the above:
> [pmatilai🎩︎localhost ~]$ rpm -q --requires SDL2|grep libdecor
(libdecor-0.so.0()(64bit) if libwayland-client)
[pmatilai🎩︎localhost ~]$ rpm -q --whatrequires "libdecor-0.so.0()(64bit)"
libdecor-0.1.1-1.fc37.x86_64
SDL2-2.26.3-1.fc37.x86_64

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393704 for some history, that RFE should be moved here upstream. In the meanwhile, a common trick to make rpm resolve the dependencies is to use 'rpm -e --test package'.

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