devel package problem

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:10:48 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> I have the package katapult
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196262

The download location is inaccessible, so I cannot comment on the package
(Resolving beta.glwb.info... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.),
but read on.
 
> rpmlint asks me to put the static libraries in -devel, which I did.
> Now I have katapult and katapult-devel
> 
> during installation, I fell on
> 
> root(i386)[0]$rpm -ivh katapult-*
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        libkatapult.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386
>        libkatapultcatalog.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386
>        libkatapultdisplay.so.0 is needed by katapult-0.3.1.3-1.i386
> 
> the katapult package needs
> %{_libdir}/lib%{name}.so
> %{_libdir}/lib%{name}catalog.so
> %{_libdir}/lib%{name}display.so
> to install

This doesn't match above failed dependencies. Look closer. The
katapult package requires the *.so.0 sonames, not the *.so 
 
> 
> how can I ask katapult to pull katapult-devel as dependency ?

Don't. It sounds wrong. There is a packaging error or library
naming mistake here somewhere. Can you make available the src.rpm
in a working location? Or post the output of "rpm -qlvp" for both
binary builds.