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

Dan Horák <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #24 from Dan Horák <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Ranjan Maitra from comment #23)
> (In reply to Dan Horák 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?).

There is nothing disruptive on introducing a new subpackage in an exiting
package. The library file is already there, it will just move to new rpm.

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

I don't understand why someone wants to introduce 8 years old code when an
up-to-date version is already available in the distro ...

> 
> 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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