Re: [help-gengetopt] Packaging Gengetopt

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> I am trying to package Gengetopt for Fedora
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243607), and I
> have a few questions in this regard.
>
> * What is purpose of the files installed under
> $prefix/share/gengetopt/-- getopt.c, getopt1.c, gnugetopt.h? Can they
> be entirely omitted from the package, or should they go in a -devel
> package?
>
> * Is " Development files for gengetopt. This includes the C header and
> source files." an appropriate description for the above files?

Hi there

very glad to hear gengetopt is being packaged for Fedora, if I can 
provide further help, please do no hesitate to contact me.

Concerning these files, as Gyozo already said, they should be included 
in the gengetopt package since they might be used by people using 
gengetopt to include them in their own package to deal with situations 
when getopt_long is not available in the C library.  This is documented 
in the gengetopt's documentation (in particular here 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html#Use-getopt_005flong-sources); 
there are many ways to handle such situations, as illustrated here 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html#No-getopt_005flong. 
 Using these sources is not the best one, but it's a possibility, so I 
think these files should be included.

I don't think a -devel package makes sense: gengetopt is used by 
developers and these files should be part of gengetopt.

IMPORTANT: these files are not required to build gengetopt itself though.

so probably a better suitable description could be "additional files 
that can be used by parsers generated by gengetopt", what do you think?

hope to hear from you soon
        Lorenzo

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