https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265685



--- Comment #23 from Ranjan Maitra <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Dan HorĂ¡k from comment #22)
> > > 2. Requires: sylpheed
> > > 
> > > This is often superfluous. Generally, RPM will pick up it automatically.
> > 
> > Why so? If sylpheed is not installed, then sylfilter has to be built
> > differently.
> 
> no, rpmbuild adds automatically dependencies on shared libraries used in the
> resulting rpm. So there will be always a dependency on libsylph no matter in
> which package or rpm libsylph will live.
> 
> If sylfilter is useful without the sylpheed GUI client, we can move the
> libsylph library into own subpackage.

Sylfilter is useful without the sylpheed GUI client, but does this not mean
that sylpheed will have to be rebuilt and be disruptive to an existing mature
package (the mailer?).

Btw, someone is trying to package libsylph separately, FWIW:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288927


New files removing requirement of sylpheed posted at:


SPEC: http://maitra.public.iastate.edu/Fedora/sylfilter.spec
SRPM: http://maitra.public.iastate.edu/Fedora/sylfilter-0.8-6.fc23.src.rpm

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