Re: Dropping elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils-devel-static subpackages

2020-07-25 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 05:00:16PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > BTW. Can Obsoletes ever be removed? We have an Obsoletes: libelf <= > > 0.8.2-2 on elfutils-libelf since the original cvsdist import of 2004 > > because there used to be a different libelf implementation (with a dead > > upstream

Re: Dropping elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils-devel-static subpackages

2020-07-24 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 4:56 PM Mark Wielaard wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 09:59 +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:25 AM Mark Wielaard > > > I committed the removal of the two static subpackages and added an > > > Obsoletes: elfutils-devel-static%{depsuffix}

Re: Dropping elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils-devel-static subpackages

2020-07-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Mark Wielaard: > BTW. Can Obsoletes ever be removed? We have an Obsoletes: libelf <= > 0.8.2-2 on elfutils-libelf since the original cvsdist import of 2004 > because there used to be a different libelf implementation (with a dead > upstream these days). Can I remove that? Or is it better to

Re: Dropping elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils-devel-static subpackages

2020-07-24 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 09:59 +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:25 AM Mark Wielaard > > I committed the removal of the two static subpackages and added an > > Obsoletes: elfutils-devel-static%{depsuffix} < 0.180-5 to elfutils- > > devel and an Obsoletes:

Re: Dropping elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils-devel-static subpackages

2020-07-23 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:25 AM Mark Wielaard wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 15:21 -0700, Josh Stone wrote: > > On 7/21/20 3:12 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > > > Is there a procedure to follow for dropping these sub-packages, or can > > > > > I simply remove them from the spec file? >

Re: Dropping elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils-devel-static subpackages

2020-07-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 15:21 -0700, Josh Stone wrote: > On 7/21/20 3:12 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > > Is there a procedure to follow for dropping these sub-packages, or can > > > > I simply remove them from the spec file? > > > > > > Maybe add Obsoletes to the devel subpackages, but not

Re: Dropping elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils-devel-static subpackages

2020-07-21 Thread Josh Stone
On 7/21/20 3:12 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: >>> Is there a procedure to follow for dropping these sub-packages, or can >>> I simply remove them from the spec file? >> >> Maybe add Obsoletes to the devel subpackages, but not Provides. >> >>

Re: Dropping elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils-devel-static subpackages

2020-07-21 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Josh, On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 14:47 -0700, Josh Stone wrote: > On 7/21/20 2:24 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > Nothing seems to require these packages, but that might be simply be > > because they are static libraries, so there aren't any runtime > > requirements. Is there some way to determine if

Re: Dropping elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils-devel-static subpackages

2020-07-21 Thread Josh Stone
On 7/21/20 2:24 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Nothing seems to require these packages, but that might be simply be > because they are static libraries, so there aren't any runtime > requirements. Is there some way to determine if anything would start > failing to build if I simply remove them? Apart

Dropping elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils-devel-static subpackages

2020-07-21 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, I would like to drop the elfutils-libelf-devel-static and elfutils- devel-static subpackages which provide static libraries for libelf and libdw/libasm. They seem to have been provided a long time ago for some core binaries, like rpm, to provide static binaries. But it looks like nothing is