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?

Wolfgang
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