On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 10:19 Dan Čermák <dan.cer...@cgc-instruments.com>
wrote:

> Hi Christophe,
>
> since the .c files appear to be fundamental for the functionality of
> make-it-quick, I'd rather silence this one specific check via an
> rpmlintrc file instead of renaming them or converting this into a -devel
> package.
>
> Renaming them is probably a lot more work and calling it -devel will
> confuse end users. Both are imho not worth it just for the sake of
> silencing a single rpmlint warning.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan
>
> Christophe de Dinechin <dinec...@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I’m currently working on a Fedora package for make-it-quick (
> https://github.com/c3d/make-it-quick), a make-only build system with
> basic auto-configuration.
> >
> > rpmlint complains about shipping .c files in a non -devel package. The
> package does contains several small .c files that are used for
> autoconfiguration.
> >
> > One option would be to rename the package as “make-it-quick-devel”, but
> that seems a bit redundant given that the whole point of the package is to
> be a development tool.
> >
> > Another option would be to rename the files to use some custom extension
> for configuration sources. But that seems more like obfuscation, and I
> don’t like doing that just to silence rpmlint.
> >
> > Can you suggest a good approach?
> >
>

Hi,

I think there is (or at least, there used to be) a section in the packaging
guidelines which explicitly mentions that including both .c and .h files in
non-devel packages is fine (and indeed, expected) for compilers and build
tools which need those files at runtime.

Fabio

>
> > Thanks
> > Christophe de Dinechin
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