[Bug 432542] Review Request: autogen - Automated text file generator

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Summary: Review Request: autogen - Automated text file generator


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432542


mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp changed:

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------- Additional Comments From mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp  2008-02-17 11:11 EST -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> Strangely the latest libopts tarball from upstream is versioned 27.6:
> http://gnu.glug-nith.org/libopts/rel27.6/
> 
> At the same time, Debian ships a libopts package that bears the same EVRA as
> autogen: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/libopts25 I took this option.
> Remember due to the multiple licensing scenario we have to separate the libopts
> (or autoopts) portion from the rest of autogen.
> 
> What do you suggest?
  This is *only my opinion*
  I think that if you want to name the libopts related subrpm as "libopts"
  the version should be 31.0.6 (as  autoopts-config --version surely
  returns this value)
  texlive maintainers use this method (i.e. they allow different versions
  for subpackage), however I really don't want this.

  _IMO_ it is better that libopts related packages are named to show explicitly
  that they are subpackages of autogen, i.e. they should be 
  autogen-libopts-devel, for example (as we actually did so in tetex age)
  with the same EVR as autogen main package.


(In reply to comment #7)
> It looks to me that the *.autogen suffix is not required because no other
> package seems to provide binaries of the same name. If that is so, we can drop
> the dependency on %{_sbindir}/alternatives.
  If you don't know why alternatives is used here (note that I
  don't know either) it should just be dropped.



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