libargp inconsistent packaging

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Sun Sep 18 23:40:00 GMT 2016


> On 16/09/2016 11:15, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >> Andrew Schulman writes:
> >>> Hi Marco. I think I thought about this in the past, but because the total
> >>> size of this package is so small, I decided it wasn't worth the trouble to
> >>> split it in two. I think that both packages would have to include the doc
> >>> files, so there wouldn't be much gain.
> >>
> >> You can't have the same files in two different packages, so if you
> >> wanted to do that you'd need to psplit out a doc package as well and
> >> have that as a required package for the other two.
> >
> > That would REALLY be overkill. No, they wouldn't be the same files, since they'd
> > be in /usr/share/doc/libargp and /usr/share/doc/libargp-devel.
> 
> 
> we need just 2 packages
> that is more or less the default split
> 
> libargp
> /usr/bin/cygargp-0.dll
> 
> libargp-devel
> /usr/include/argp.h
> /usr/lib/libargp.dll.a
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/libargp.README
> /usr/share/doc/libargp/COPYING
> /usr/share/doc/libargp/COPYING.LESSER
> /usr/share/doc/libargp/README.Cygwin

OK then



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