pythonegg deps handling in rpm versions

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 09:18:32PM +0200, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> On 2013-01-27 20:29, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> >how to handle generated pythonegg versioned deps with aX and bX 
> >suffixes?
> >
> >
> >glen at carme-pld-i686 packages/python-pyramid $ rpm -Uhv --test
> >/home/users/glen/rpm/packages/RPMS/python-pyramid-1.4-0.1.noarch.rpm
> >error: Failed dependencies:
> >        pythonegg(chameleon) >= 1.2.3 is needed by 
> >python-pyramid-1.4-0.1.noarch
> >        pythonegg(webob) >= 1.2b3 is needed by 
> >python-pyramid-1.4-0.1.noarch
> >
> >so considering webob being Library and and python-pyramid as 
> >Application:
> >
> >a) transform <VERSION>a<NUMBER> into <VERSION>-0.a<NUNMBER> in rpm
> >dependency generator?
> >b) make those Provides: manually in Library?
> >c) patch .egg in the Application not to be a7 but foo-0.a7?
> >d) put dep into _noautoFOO in Application and handle dependency
> >version manually?
> 
> or even
> e) rename Library to contain aX in it's %{version}
> 
> i'm not sure how python version's "grow", is 1.1a1 followed by 1.1 or 
> 1.2?

It may be package/developer-specific.
IIRC python itself used N.Ma -> N.Mb -> N.Mc -> N.M


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