(In reply to comment #28)
> The fact of the matter is that fedora can't just change the behavior of the
> tool because it's inconvenient. Although there is no formal specification, what
> I've described is the expected and stated behavior of Requires.private. It
> can't mean one thing on debian and another thing on fedora. That makes the tool
> useless.
This is not correct. In many applications Fedora already adds
its own implementation.
(In reply to comment #28)
> The fact of the matter is that fedora can't just change the behavior of the
> tool because it's inconvenient. Although there is no formal specification, what
> I've described is the expected and stated behavior of Requires.private. It
> can't mean one thing on debian and another thing on fedora. That makes the tool
> useless.
This is not correct. In many applications Fedora already adds
its own implementation.