perl provides and requires from the same package
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Feb 18 17:21:00 UTC 2009
Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2009-02-18, 14:38 GMT, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> The packager thinks this is OK, I think that they should be
>>> filtered out. Could we have a second opinion, please ?
>> Pedantically speaking, they should not be there, but they don't
>> do much harm (but to bloat the rpmdata bases) -- which is one
>> reason why there is no requirement to filter them out.
>
> I think the problem, is that neither specifies what "they" are.
> IMHO, Provides should stay and Requires go.
Agreed, IMO, "self-provided requires" should go, everything else should
stay.
Unfortunately, rpm's filtering doesn't do so and manually adding filters
is more error-prone than it helps.
Ralf
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