perl provides and requires from the same package

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Wed Feb 18 14:00:53 UTC 2009


During the review for  perl-NOCpulse-Object  ( 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485893 ) I have noticed that 
rpmbuild adds as requires some items which are provided by this very 
package (abreged version below):

[wolfy at wolfy tmp]$ rpm -qp --provides
/home/wolfy/reports/perl-NOCpulse-Object/perl-NOCpulse-Object-1.26.9-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
perl(NOCpulse::AbstractObjectRepository)
perl(NOCpulse::BlockingDBMNamespace)
perl(NOCpulse::BlockingFileNamespace)
perl(NOCpulse::DBMObjectRepository)
perl(NOCpulse::INIObjectRepository)
perl(NOCpulse::MultiFileObjectRepository)
perl(NOCpulse::NSObject)
perl(NOCpulse::Namespace)
perl(NOCpulse::Object) = 1.26
perl(NOCpulse::ObjectProxy)
perl(NOCpulse::ObjectProxyServer)
perl(NOCpulse::PersistentObject)
perl(NOCpulse::SharedBlockingNamespace)
perl-NOCpulse-Object = 1.26.9-1.fc11

[wolfy at wolfy tmp]$ rpm -qp --requires
/home/wolfy/reports/perl-NOCpulse-Object/perl-NOCpulse-Object-1.26.9-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
perl(NOCpulse::AbstractObjectRepository)
perl(NOCpulse::DBMObjectRepository)
perl(NOCpulse::Debug)
perl(NOCpulse::INIObjectRepository)
perl(NOCpulse::MultiFileObjectRepository)
perl(NOCpulse::Namespace)
perl(NOCpulse::Object)
perl(NOCpulse::SharedBlockingNamespace)


The packager thinks this is OK, I think that they should be filtered 
out. Could we have a second opinion, please ?

    Manuel




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