shlib-policy-excessive-dependency. Do I really need to split the package?

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I have been trying to build nuspell, almost there.
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:andythe_great/nuspell

I got 1 warning:
libnuspell3.x86_64: W: shlib-policy-excessive-dependency libboost_locale.so.1.71.0
23s] Your package starts with ‘lib’ as part of its name, but also contains binaries
23s] that have more dependencies than those that already required by the libraries.
23s] Those binaries should probably not be part of the library package, but split
23s] into a seperate one to reduce the additional dependencies for other users of
23s] this library.

Which I found out that the problematic file is %{_bindir}/nuspell under %files -n libnuspell3
The file %{_bindir}/nuspell indeed have dependency on libboost_locale.so.1.71.0.

It ask me to split into different package. But what should that package be name as? Should it have dependency on libnuspell3?
Thanks.

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Hi
Package it under the package name ‘nuspell’ it should pick up the requires on the lib (look at the build log).

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Alright, Thank.

But would having package name libnuspell and nuspell be confusing? Should I make it dependent of each other?

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Hi
No, installing nuspell should if it’s working correctly should pull in libnuspell, test by installing libnuspell and if the binary is needed, then add a requires here eg;


Requires: nuspell = %{version}

Again, check the build log as it tells you in the final part what requires what (look at the log from 97 seconds on).

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Oh Thanks.

I check and indeed it pull libnuspell.