Just a couple of notes for any prospective reviewer:

• This is going to break the build deps (but not the runtime deps) of any package depending on maxima, leaving the package in an unresolvable state due to multiple providers of maxima_exec being available. This should be fixed at the individual pkg level with an additional Requires: maxima-exec-${flavor}. The only pkg depending on maxima in openSUSE:Factory is wxMaxima, and I have gone ahead and fixed it in this case (see pkg in my branch project).
• When building multiple lisp flavours, maxima sets sbcl as the preferred default lisp but it tries and finds other lisp implementations just fine in case maxima-exec-sbcl is not installed. Thus, I have only added the weaker Suggests on maxima-exec-sbcl for maxima rather than a Requires or even Recommends. At any rate, at least one maxima-exec-${flavor} must be installed for maxima to work; this is still ensured by the Requires: maxima_exec for maxima.

Thanks a lot for your explanation! Would you mind to a) place the comment above in a "README.SUSE.packaging" file and b) refer to that in the package (changelog)? I guess a lot more packagers would love to read your information in the package and not alone in this submit request ;-)

Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) - over 3 years ago

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Great idea, thanks! Will send an sr soon.