Hello.

 This could be tricky:
unnecessary-dep xorg-x11 xorg-x11-devel
no-dep-on-devel xorg-x11

 I've removed xorg-x11 from Buildrequires and added xorg-x11-devel and
the result is that abuild uninstalled xorg-x11 from BUILD_ROOT. This
broke building.

 Regards Ladislav.

2007/8/20, Michal Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> during 10.3 development, many library packages were renamed and/or split
> into a runtime and devel subpackage. The former doesn't cause any pain,
> as the *.so provides / requires stay the same. But it can (and did)
> happen that package A was split into A and A-devel, but some other
> package B still buildrequires A. If the build system of B is "smart"
> enough to continue build with the missing package, then B is built with
> features missing.
>
> Example: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301337
>
> I wrote a script grepping spec files and comparing BuildRequires with
> the set of -devel packages in the distro. Now I ended up with > 700
> lines of warnings. I found two more SDL-related bugs in the output:
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301817
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301820
>
> but I gave up on the rest. Most of the lines are probable false
> positives or complaints about superfluous build deps, but I'm attaching
> the file in case someone else wants to check if there are more such bugs.
>
> Michal
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