[Fedora-packaging] Static Library Policy Draft Changes

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 19:19 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> 1. Is it permitted to have a subpackage called 
> mylib-static which holds what is generally in a devel subpackage, and 
> Provides: mylib-devel = %{version}-%{release}

No. 

> 2. Is it permitted to have the headers in
> devel and the static library in -static and have 
> mylib-devel
> Requires: mylib-static = %{version}-%{release}

Yes. But you'd still need to have any packages which link against the
static libraries BuildRequire: mylib-static.

~spot