38+BuildRequires:  libevdev%{libevdev_sover} >= %{libevdev_reqver}
39+Requires:       libevdev%{libevdev_sover} >= %{libevdev_reqver}

BuildRequiring a library is 99.995% the wrong thing to do - BuildRequire the respective devel package

Requring a specific .so.<n> from any other package than the one being built is a recipe for disaster; the library versions can change, which ,makes packaging more annoying than needed.

Do something like finding the right package name based on the .so symlink (installed by the devel package) - then you get a dynamically correct dependency on the correct package

Callum Farmer (gmbr3) - over 2 years ago

source maintainer

I know. However this has no proper build system and hardcodes it.

@staticmethod def _cdll(): return ctypes.CDLL("libevdev.so.2", use_errno=True)

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Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) - over 2 years ago

reviewer

Ouch - it's even worse than expected... bu tin this case, ok, not much we can do better with THIS code

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Matej Cepl (mcepl) - over 2 years ago

author source maintainer

OK, this is so bad (I cannot believe wot created something so horrible), cannot we make libwacom use python-evdev instead?

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Callum Farmer (gmbr3) - over 2 years ago

source maintainer

It also uses the equally terrible python-pyudev and I wouldn't know anyway ask the libwacom maintainer.