libargp inconsistent packaging

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 10:20:00 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



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