Re: strange failure for dependency against libdb-4.5.so

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt tmp0701 nospam arcor de>]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:49:07 +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 03:21:56PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > 
> > > compat-db-devel doesn't exist. I was trying to say, that Requires: db4 = 4.3.29
> > 
> > But such requires should never be necessary since rpm figures out
> > automatically the library dependencies.
> 
> You are right, but such dependencies are still used in some packages:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253447

That ticket is a non-issue here.

It is normal for -devel packages to require other -devel packages.

Btw, other packages have "BuildRequires: db4-devel" which cannot
be removed either.