CPAN spec file generator needs testing, feedback

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Thu Jun 10 06:12:18 UTC 2004


Alan wrote:
> 
> I will have to test this against some of the corner cases I know of.  
> There are some packages that do not demand certain modules be installed,
> but really need them anyways.  (At least one of the RPM packages have
> dependencies on a couple of things that are needed to make them useful,
> yet they are not hard dependencies in the code.)

Such packages should have explicit Requires and possibly comments within 
the .spec file why they were added.  Explicit definitions should improve 
reproducibility, which is one type of "stability" in the distribution.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com





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